Hello, I have a new 3TB HDD I am trying to install. When I boot from my Windows 7 disc to the part where you select the partition where you want to install the OS, I select the Primary partition and get the message "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See the Setup log files for more information."
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
To expand, you need to make the other partitions under 2.2tb so that Windows can use it. Otherwise you will need to convert the drive to GPT and you can only make it bootable if you have a UEFI motherboard.
i deleted all partitions so all that was left was 2,867gb of unallocated space
Windows 7 installed to that, is that ok?
ASRock > Z77 Pro4 has a UEFI BIOS, so update the BIOS firmware, enable UEFI in BIOS setup, boot the Win7 DVD as a UEFI device, delete all partitions to clear the MBR formatting, then install Win7 to a partition of the size you want.
One should always make at least an initial effort to install to UEFI as it's the next generation BIOS with graphical interface, somewhat faster boots, and other enhancements.
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