Hi. I think many have posted this. I even tried many of the solutions. But nothing helps. I always get this error when installing windows 7 on a clean formatted hardrive- 'Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The computers bios may not support booting to this disk. Ensure this disks controller is enabled in the bios menu.'
PLEASE HELP
Do you have UEFI, BIOS, a combination of UEFI/Legacy? What Windows 7 disk? Microsoft [blue-disk], OEM, rescue disk? Wiser techs than I will be asking you for details. Stay tuned. And, how did you clean-format this particular hard-drive?
i have a bios. i am installing windows 7 thorugh usb. i formatted it through cmd Shift+f10.
Your hard drive has to be converted from GPT to MBR and you have to disable UEFI in the bios.
Convert GPT Disk to MBR Disk
Option 2 Step 2, using your Windows 7 install dvd
Command Prompt at Startup
Pay very close attention to step 1, read it carefully.
AddRAM indicated making sure your newly formatted HD is MBR, NTFS. If so, you should be able to install your OS onto it. Exactly what command[s] did you use to format this HD?
Last edited by RolandJS; 19 Jan 2015 at 22:37.
Work through these Steps to Troubleshoot Windows 7 Installation Failures - Windows 7 Help Forums.
Let us know exactly where the failure is and if all steps fail test your hard drive using the maker's HD Diagnostic extended CD scan followed by Disk Check on the full disk partition you've created from the steps above.
Had the exact same problem. Many kind thanks for your post. All working fine now. :)
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