Setup unable to create a new partition or locate an existing partition

[Bare Foot Kid]

Bare Foot Kid

It did then i tried continuing the installation and the same problem occured as i explained to gregrocker in post #19

Sorry mate, I must have missed that in all the confusion.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Have a look at Step Two #2 that shows how to create the partition(s) for install, I would run just the clean command first just to be sure, it takes only seconds to run and does no harm at all.

SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation

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[theog]

Have you removed the bad DVD drive?

 

[mrvoid]

gregrocker

"While in BIOS setup, set SATA controller to AHCI to try install. If this fails, try IDE mode."

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Failed in AHCI and IDE
Now trying:
"Try formatting your own Primary partition marked Active with Diskpart using these Commands from DVD Repair console Command Prompt:

Select Disk 0 (use Windows 7 HD #)
create partition primary
format fs=ntfs label="Windows 7"
Active
exit"

 

[mrvoid]

theog

yes it is currently removed in order to get the product codes to find a replacement

 

[gregrocker]

You can inexpensively order any combo OD off of buy.com or newegg, or buy from a local shop.

 

[mrvoid]

gregrocker

Ill look into it as a last resort.
Right now I'm still in the "Try formatting your own Primary-" its at 85% right now been formatting since my last post about an hr ago

 

[mrvoid]

gregrocker

"Try formatting your own Primary-"

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Completed and failed

 

[theog]

I would Check the hard drive with the manufacturer's diagnostic tools.
Hard Drive Diagnostics Tools and Utilities (Storage) - TACKtech Corp.
HD Diagnostic

But you will need a DVD/CD Drive.

 

[gregrocker]

gregrocker

"Try formatting your own Primary-"Completed and failed

Did you mark it Active?

Since you now have a partition, boot the DVD Repair console to use Command Prompt to run Disk Check with the /f switch.

Continue to work through the other steps.

 

[mrvoid]

gregrocker

it is marked Active and running
chkdsk C: /F

it ends with
Failed to transfer logged messages to the event log with status 50.

 

[gregrocker]

Were you able to watch progress of Disk Check to see if there were problems found?

The final error message is likely because there is no log on an empty HD.

I'd do the HD maker's diagnostic/repair Extended CD scan next.

 

[whtnxt]

@mrvoid
Well to start with I have faced the same problem that you have on my new laptop.
"Setup unable to create the system partition"
I was booting from my 4GB pendrive and tried to do a clean install of Windows 7 but faced that issue.
I does a little research and here are my findings might helps you.
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You have to remove all USB drives while the setup is in progress specially during Partition selection

Windows 7 setup has some bug
when you select a new partition to install win 7, setup tries to create a 100 MB system partition on the first BIOS Device which in your case is USB as you are booting from it. Windows 7 setup sees your HDD on your machine as second BIOS device. No matter you create a Primary partition on your machine HDD and Mark it as active, the setup will not proceed further because it cannot create a 100MB partition for Boot Files on your USB drive

Sol:
You can try changing the boot order of USB and HDD on motherboard setup and boot to USB by pressing 'F11' during restart or something that brings up Boot Menu. This might help you but chances are very less.

OR

1. Use Gparted and make two primary partition on your HDD make one as active.
2. Boot from USB during setup goto command Prompt and make your active partition bootable using following command

bootsect /nt60 d:
"D: -your active partition whatever it is just replace the drive letter"

3. Copy all files from USB to Active partition using DOS commands you might know them xcopy or something
4. Remove USB and restarts your machine it should boot from Active partition
5. Run setup as usual and make a clean reinstall

That should solve your problem. Gud Luck