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Solution 1: Convert FAT file system to NTFS using Convert. For more information on how to disable boot devices be sure to check your motherboard manual. Check settings in the BIOS.
Then re-install the windows 7 64bit, waiting to see the error message. I cant go onwards as my original windows 8 is not listed in the OS options. If it repeats the same error on another system then there is every chance the hard disk drive HDD has malfunctioned. Basic disk is a storage type mostly used with Windows, providing a solution to accommodate an array which changes storage requirement scenarios. Still, you may want to double or triple confirm that CSM is really disabled in your UEFI.
Ноут Toshiba Toshiba Satellite C50D-B-120 3. However, you should know that Partition Wizard can only change non-system GPT disk to MBR disk without bringing any data loss.
[Solved] – cannot be installed to this - Method 1: Format the partition and then try to install Windows Vista. I tried all the suggestions above, rebooting, diskpart etc.
I have problem with installation Win7 x64. I tried ICH9 controler in mode AHCI and RAID. Loading intel drivers Ver:8. I can see drives, make new partition and format it. Log file has 1800 lines so i copy only part o it. I had a similar issue with RAID setup on my PC with an M4A79 DELUXE motherboard. I don't know how I missed it in the Beta, but the problem exists there too. Here's how I got around it. Click Refresh After clicking Refresh, the error should be gone and you should now be able to install on one of your partitions. At least that's how I got it working. It took me about two dozen attempts to figure this out. I would submit this as a bug but I'm not quite sure how to do that at the moment. I had a similar issue with RAID setup on my PC with an M4A79 DELUXE motherboard. I don't know how I missed it in the Beta, but the problem exists there too. Here's how I got around it. Click Refresh After clicking Refresh, the error should be gone and you should now be able to install on one of your partitions. At least that's how I got it working. It took me about two dozen attempts to figure this out. I would submit this as a bug but I'm not quite sure how to do that at the moment. DUDE YOU ARE THE MAN!! PS: This guys answer should be linked to the error in the search! I just thought I would add my two cents to this thread. I had the same problem as everyone else where the installer refused to install on the disk I wanted it to without explaining why. However, I am not configuring a RAID so I couldn't figure out what the problem was. The first time I booted, I formatted the drive as NTFS. Since it didn't work, I rebooted, thinking it might work if the installer started with a properly formatted drive. So I tried installing drivers anyway. Thanks to the advice given in this thread, I was able to open up setupact. So it turns out my bios has inadvertently reordered my drives without me knowing it. Windows wouldn't install because I couldn't boot to that drive I'm fine with that. However, I fail to see why it couldn't alert me of the ACTUAL problem when it obviously knew what the problem was instead of making me hunt through log files. I had the same problem but the solution to mine was actually unplugging any other sata drives such as my cd drive. I used an ata cdrom drive and made sure I only had the one sata drive plugged in and all went well. Hope this helps good luck! That is exactly it mate. I have been trying here with my Adaptec SCSI controller for last 4 hours for my SCSI system drive. I had the same problem with Vista back in the day. I don't know why Microsoft don't patch this stupid issue. Install the damn OS and let me choose the drive after if it is not right boot drive in my case, it was but still complained about it. It is so frustrating. I had to unplug all my SATA drives, including my SATA dvd-roms, then found my old dusty IDE DVD-ROM drive, shoved it in there, unplugged all USB storage devices and finally it worked. Now it is installing. After first restart, I have plugged everything back in and it works just fine. I thought it was only my sata HDD at the beginning but it turns out it hated the SATA DVD drives also. Problem is, after getting it to accept the RAID installation, I wasn't able to format the disks, it went straight into install. Anyone able to getaround that. I think I'll pull the HDDs out and format them on this computer and start all over. Aussie Greg I had a similar problem, here are the steps I took to solve it. Setup says cannot install to the drive. Windows 7 setup creates and formats the partition automatically. I'm guessing it wouldn't work because my BIOS assigned the DVD drive as C:. Seems like a pretty simple thing that Microsoft could have fixed. Don't know why we expect them to do that though. This is why I use a Mac for all of my important stuff and Windows for entertainment only. Exact same problem you guys had - I think I found another fix though. In BIOS ASUS P6T there is a field under Boot Configuration that lets you choose your disk boot order. After you stripe them in raid you need to make sure this is the first boot device. Might be specific to this bios AMI, not sure version - but another possible work-around for anyone who doesn't have luck with any of the above. I had a similar issue while installing Win7 x84 onto an ECS GeForce 7050M-M v2. The SATA drive already had a few partitions while the IDE version only had one. Loading the drivers from the mobo's CD didn't help nor did disabling the IDE drive nor deleting all of the SATA drive's partitions, the error message would never go away. Eventually when I fired up Diskpart and viewed the disks I saw four disks from my on-board memory card reader... What a terrible installation error. Had the disk screen shown the card reader drives I would have removed it first instead of messing around with repartitioning the drive! I had the same problem but the solution to mine was actually unplugging any other sata drives such as my cd drive. I used an ata cdrom drive and made sure I only had the one sata drive plugged in and all went well. Hope this helps good luck! Sometimes the simplest answers are the best answers... I spent hours dinking around with SATA drivers and the rest of the suggestions in this thread; I even went so far as to try creating a usable boot partition directly with DISKPART from within the installation routine. Adding to my confusion was the fact that I was installing from a USB flash memory stick. Howsomever, everything worked splendidly once I unplugged my second SATA HDD and my SATA DVD from the MOBO. Thank you for pointing this out... Ok here's what I did: 1. I took both notebook hard drives out of my HP Notebook and attached them in turn via a special USB cable to my spare computer. I formatted both notebook hard drives in turn using my spare computer. I then replaced the notebook hard drives back into the HP notebook. I detached any external drives or USB drives from the notebook - this confuses Win 7 setup. I ran Win 7 setup normally booting from DVD. Error message 'Cannot install to Disk 0 Partition 1' disappeared. Keep it simple - you'll be fine. Ahhhh, fun with RAID. Had the same problem - Win7 setup identified the array after driver installation from USB stick , allowed partitioning and formatting, but when attempting to proceed with Win7 installation, the same error message appeared: unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition. None of the methods suggested here worked, but they did point me in the right direction thanks :- Solution: don't have the USB stick inserted at boot; wait 'til it's time to install the RAID driver before inserting it, and remove it once setup has pulled the driver off the stick. Hope this helps someone. Yes, that's what I met. Someone's suggestion was, at this point of installing, insert driver cd. So I found out my driver cd, put it aside. Then re-install the windows 7 64bit, waiting to see the error message. I did not use my driver cd!! What I did is just restart the computer, and re-install. Mainboard: XPC SN68SG2 HD: Hitachi 2TB sata OS: Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate Don't get me started, this is a joke and I can't believe this rigmarole is prevalent in what is almost 2011. I've been involved with building pcs since the days when DOS 5. But since the days that XP decided that you had to hit F6 to load SATA drivers from a hard-coded floppy drive designated as a: I don't have a floppy drive, what now? So I assumed by the time we got around to Win 7, everything would be hunky-dory. I've bought a Dell Studio XPS 7100 with AMD architecture and 2 x 1TB Seagate drives in RAID0 mode. I fire it up and, sure enough, Dell have loaded it with crapware...... I mean, McAfee FFS? It was causing my screen to go black every 20 seconds. So I reboot, delete the RAID array, enter the BIOS and chase the boot mode from RAID to AHCI. I also remove the SATA cable from drive 1 drive 0 is intact and everything in the BIOS is spot on. Reboot again with the Win 7 DVD and there is nothing I can do to get Win 7 to see the single hard drive that exists; loading AHCI drivers from a memory stick, nothing. Retry it all with the BIOS boot mode set to RAID....... So, I connect both drives, recreate the RAID array, boot from the DVD and, at last, Windows decides it will install. How simple can it be to get a system with two independent hard drives up and running under Win 7? I'm genuinely curious because if someone can talk me through step-by-step how to get Win 7 to install to one hard drive whilst leaving the other one alone for data, I'm all ears. Thank you for reading. The error occurred while preparing the partition selected for installation. I have done this over and over again. The reason I know it creates the partitions as I am using Marvell RAID 0 is I picked Drive Options and then created partition but the format failed everytime. These are new drives so I don't think that is issue. I cannot get rid of this error. My system does not see the raid drive until I put the usb stick with the driver in and load the driver. The strange thing is that I have successfully installed to this system before. Same mobo, drives, driver, usb stick. The only thing different is I transplanted the guts to a new box. Anyone have any ideas? I have six disks total but two on the troublesome controller. I found that the problem was that the driver was allowing windows to see the raid drive but at the same time was making windows lose the two dvd drives. So the error was that windows couldn't find the install media due to the drives disappearing. I only discovered this by clicking browse again for drivers after already installing one and then noticing the dvd drives weren't shown anymore. So I hooked up an external dvd usb drive and put the install disk there. So I uninstalled it and my drives came back. In the end, I'm not sure if this is a bad driver from gigabyte or an actual windows problem. It certainly chewed up a lot of my time though. Hopefully my workaround helps someone out there... Most of the information out there is on getting SATA or RAID working. The information did ultimately help. Most of the fixes have been to removed drives from SATA connections. In my case, I actually had to put a slave drive on my primary cable. I originally had Windows XP on a drive the died. It was the primary Master and there was no Primary Slave. I have a DVD-RW and a CD-RW as the secondary master and slave second cable. I also have a floppy drive. Don't need too much space since this is my mother-in-laws computer and she just uses it for email. I had just did a different old PC that only had PATA earlier in the day and it went very easy. For it I did the following: 1. Booted from Windows Install DVD 3. Formatted drive under the Advance section 4. Still had the error, so rebooted. Noticed that bios flashed something about finding a new drive and automatically adding it. For the Second PC, no such luck. I tried every thing I could think of. At one point I replaced the drive with another. I was about to remove the CD and Floppy... I had a second IDE drive. Now I have the original used drive I stared with as Primary Master, the second used drive as Primary Slave, The DVD-RW as Secondary Master, and CD-RW as Secondary Slave. Floppy still in also. I boot with the Windows install DVD... What is the real fix? Is there any real pattern to this? I'm not sure, but there is constant responses to the fact that the installer is confused at times with or without multiple drives. Just thought I would share my experiences with this issue also when installing Windows Server 2008 R2. I needed to load the drivers for the RAID card at the appropriate screen and to do so I had to remove the USB DVDROM from the server to get the USB key into the neighbouring USB port. After about 15 mins of troubleshooting and finding this thread I fould that if the USB key with the drivers AND the USB DVDROM were not connected or available to the installer AT THE SAME TIME everything came unstuck. What I did to resolve the error after I encountered it is make sure I had both the USB key and USB DVDROM inserted and clicked the back button a few steps and we able to restart the install without needing to reboot and pointed to the USB key when I needed to provide the drivers. The next attempt at choosing the partition to install to the error was gone. Hitting refresh after loading the drivers didnt work for me. I think because I was using a USB DVDROM which was disconnected on my first attempt to insert the USB key. Hope this was helpful to others. Setup says cannot install to the drive. Windows 7 setup creates and formats the partition automatically. I'm guessing it wouldn't work because my BIOS assigned the DVD drive as C:. Seems like a pretty simple thing that Microsoft could have fixed. Don't know why we expect them to do that though. This is why I use a Mac for all of my important stuff and Windows for entertainment only. YOUR THE MANNNNN BROO!!!!! I had the same issue with a brand new system. I have a total of 6 SATA hard drives configured with RAID. According to the Gigabyte manual, there is no need to load the device drivers as Windows 7 already has them for the P67 motherboard I am using. The SATA DVD I am using is connected to another SATA controller and I got the error stating that the DVD drivers could not be found. When I loaded the drivers for the other SATA controller, I then got the error that Windows could not be installed to Disk 0 partition 1. I tried all the suggestions above, rebooting, diskpart etc. In the end, I simply removed all the hard drives except for the first 2, and connected the DVD to the onboard controller. Windows is now installing as expected. Once everything is installed, I will move the DVD back to the other controller and reconnect the other drives and see if that works, but at least Windows will already be installed. Thanx for all the suggestions - they really helped meget this issue resolved. Initially it did not work for me... I tried many many times.... The error says that windows cannot install on the selected partition... REMEMBER TO RE-INSERT THE WINDOWS INSTALLATION DISK! Looks as if I'm the next one to try and get help on this issue. Same error and have tried most all solutions above, but no luck so far. I'm using an adaptec 1430SA raid controller, which the system see's, along with 4 hard drives 500gig each - identical drives and set as a Raid 10. So when system boots up i see the raid controller and all four drives being present. When i go into bios i see my sata dvd drive - no other devices connected to other sata ports, no card readers, usb's etc... Mother board is a gigabyte z68x-ud40b3, So i go into bios and under advanced settings I have under advanced settings an option for boot priority. Just down from here it gives me an option for first second and third boot device. I have it set to CDRom, then hard drive and then disabled. I have to have it set to CDrom first otherwise i can't see the dvd drive to load the win 7 software. I don't think I need hard drive in second position as it is not using the mother board built in raid, but rather the optional raid card by adaptec to do the job. I still had the issue after unplugging EVERYTHING but the dvdrom and the hdd, I even went so far as disabling sata im using an old socket 754 board and get the issue asus k8v-mx i tried to install drivers.. F10 just before setup after language chooser diskpart, list disk, select disk 0 your disk may be a different number , clean, create partition primary.. None of the options here worked for me, but I solved it by simply installing from a DVD instead of a USB drive I had forgotten to include a DVD-ROM as part of my order when I bought a new computer :. So for everyone who's having this problem and are installing from a USB drive: See if you can't burn the installation files onto a DVD instead, and then use that to install. My computer has a single 1TB SATA 3. I guess the computer got confused because of the USB drive, and didn't know where to attempt the installation. I had a similar issue with RAID setup on my PC with an M4A79 DELUXE motherboard. I don't know how I missed it in the Beta, but the problem exists there too. Here's how I got around it. Click Refresh After clicking Refresh, the error should be gone and you should now be able to install on one of your partitions. At least that's how I got it working. It took me about two dozen attempts to figure this out. I would submit this as a bug but I'm not quite sure how to do that at the moment. DUDE YOU ARE THE MAN!! PS: This guys answer should be linked to the error in the search! How to is select the disck :S im stupid :P I had a similar problem, here are the steps I took to solve it. Setup says cannot install to the drive. Windows 7 setup creates and formats the partition automatically. I'm guessing it wouldn't work because my BIOS assigned the DVD drive as C:. Seems like a pretty simple thing that Microsoft could have fixed. Don't know why we expect them to do that though. This is why I use a Mac for all of my important stuff and Windows for entertainment only. YOUR THE MANNNNN BROO!!!!! How to i select the disk??? I ha no idea :S Everything goes well until i have to select a disk... There is no disc selected. Please select a disk I dont know how to do it, im not familliar with cmd. This error message during windows 7 based system, is caused by many factors. The most probable is that windows can't assign the C: to the hard disk or partition. This my happen by bios related problems, but more often, is because the hard disk has an another MBR yet installed. This MBR tells the system that the bootable partition isn't that on this hard disk, so windows notices that he can't start from this location. The solution is to connect this hard disk to another pc, open a command prompt and use DISKPART to clean and create a primary partition on this disk in a raw format default. That is what happened to me, and now I'v resolved. So, check if the hard disk has a MBR setted yet, if so, erase it. Hope this is usefull. I was having this issue but then I realized that windows installer didnt like that i had a sata disk drive... So apperntly having two sata devices, namely a sata disk drive that is used for the install dvd, plugged in prevents the HDD from being the first sata device to be accessed and hence throws an error on install. Hope this helps at least one person... I had the same problem. The drive was previously used just as a data drive, not a boot disk. Win 7 didn't want load on it. I followed the instructions posted by BenFreefly although abbreviated slightly and it worked. For reference, here are the steps; 1 After Windows gives you the error, hit SHIFT-F10 to get to the command prompt. From there, Windows will extract files and the install will boot several times. I had a similar problem, here are the steps I took to solve it. Setup says cannot install to the drive. Windows 7 setup creates and formats the partition automatically. I'm guessing it wouldn't work because my BIOS assigned the DVD drive as C:. Seems like a pretty simple thing that Microsoft could have fixed. Don't know why we expect them to do that though. This is why I use a Mac for all of my important stuff and Windows for entertainment only. Thanks a lot : I had the same problem. The drive was previously used just as a data drive, not a boot disk. Win 7 didn't want load on it. I followed the instructions posted by BenFreefly although abbreviated slightly and it worked. For reference, here are the steps; 1 After Windows gives you the error, hit SHIFT-F10 to get to the command prompt. From there, Windows will extract files and the install will boot several times. Wow, that's weird, this is my answer that has been deleted I just got a new computer and tried to install win 7 64-bit. If people help me can you please make it as simple as possible I'm a noob when it comes to fixing computers. So looking forward to installing it and playing on it, but can't because when I get to the 'disk partition' screen I get this error 'Error: 0x80300001'. I have searched all over the internet found a few things that people say worked for them, but not me. I have tried formatting 'Disk 0 partition 1' and it went from 100MB to 86MB then same with 'Disk 0 partition 2' this is my HDD it went from 232. Am I doing soemthing wrong!? Setup says cannot install to the drive. Windows 7 setup creates and formats the partition automatically. I'm guessing it wouldn't work because my BIOS assigned the DVD drive as C:. Seems like a pretty simple thing that Microsoft could have fixed. Don't know why we expect them to do that though. This is why I use a Mac for all of my important stuff and Windows for entertainment only. If you ever using thinkstations with marvel sas hdd drivers or similar one and using downloaded drivers during win7 setup dont use the format option by keeping the external downloaded driver cd in the cd drive. It formats the drive no doubt but because windows 7 does not like that file system it keeps rejecting the partiton with 0x80300001 error which may mislead you guys for wrong driver. Its not wrong driver the wrong file system format thereafter u use. Once the new driver has been loaded and partition is created remove the external driver cd and insert the win7 dvd back again then choose the format and u will be fine. Else you will be going under loop forever. SOLVED but i don't know how... Now my new W7 RC work like charm : Hi guys.. Mine is a Dell Ultrabook 14z. Tried loads of stuff.. Finally got the RAID drivers installled but this thing where it didnt install on the formatted disk came up. I formatted the disk through disk operations window during installation. It still didnt install. So restarted setup and now in progress to install WIN 7..
