Any Ideas? The problem. Trying to install Win 7 Ultimate x64 I get to the point of it asking where to install to. Hard disk is blank, so I click new to create a new partition, on other systems it comes up and says windows will create a system partition. It does not do it now. it just creates one partition. then when you click next, it comes up and says it could not create or find a system partition and all I can do is cancel the install. Any ideas? edit: Only one hard disk hooked up. installing from USB flash drive. Thanks
Check in your bios that the hardrive you want to install windows 7 is the primary booting device. This could also happen if you have a USB key connected to the computer. EDIT: Ok I saw that your installing from usb. Check in bios that the drive that you want to installed is selected as the primary . There should be an option not too far away of the boot order for that.
If you want to boot from USB, you must set BIOS Boot Order ( Boot Sequence) as FIRST Device. Your HDD is new one ( Blank one ), As installing screen appears,You have to click NEW => Apply => Format ( Wait for while ) = > Next ( Now it'll install ). There's a preserved system partition 100MB. DO NOT choose this as primary. Good luck.
do this: load up the disk and when you get to the intstall now screen hit shift+f10 this will open a command prompt. In the command prompt type in: diskpart in the diskpart prompt type: list disk (disk 0 should be your hard drive, it might not be but 99.9% of the time it is, your USB stick should be disk 1) select disk 0 (or whatever drive you want to install windows on) clean (this will erase all partitions on the hard drive) if you want to delete a specific partition just type in list partition and then select partition # (where # is the partition you want to select), then type in delete partition create partition primary select partition # (where # is the number of the partition you just created) active format fs=ntfs quick now just go back to the GUI and try to install like normal.
Sorry for this OT guys... but do you really need to create a 100mb? Cause I have installed win 7 x64 ultimate into my 3 partition HDD (laptop) and but it is running for 2 months with no problem now... I've run disk management just to clearly check this is how it looks: @ ziggy, sorry mate. Dont mean to hi-jack your thread..
That is only because you already have an active boot partition windows 7 won't make the 100mb one then.
i installed mine from a falsh disk and i had no issues like this at all i removed the old windows xp partition and the was nothing on the drive anymore and it installed like it should with the 100mb system partition and everything
Yep, I know, it has worked for me also. But on this one machine it won't. What is even funnier, I have two desktops that are Identical, every piece of hardware is the same, one it worked fine, the other one is the one I having the problem with, going to try what HSChronic posted and see if that works later today.
Have you tried rebooting & running the install again? I get the same thing after I wipe a hdd. The 1st time I try to install the OS it errors but a reboot works. I think when I wipe the disk with "gdisk 1 /mbr /wipe" the mbr must be invalid or something & the initial failed install fixes this....
I had the same issue with my install using Grub4dos and i had to use the following entry to get it to work title Windows 7 find --set-root /iso/win7.iso map /iso/win7.iso (0xff) map --hook map (hd1) (hd0) chainloader (0xff) boot The important part was "map (hd1) (hd0)" If your not using grub4dos and bootmgr instead then sorry but obviously my suggestion wont help.