Cannot Format Hard Disk

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  1. Posts : 152
    windows 7/windows xp/windows vista
    Thread Starter
       #31

    Well I never did select partition 1. Will that affect it?

    This is the first time Windows 7 has recognized my hard drive in the "where to you want to install windows" screen.

    When I select Disk 0 Partition 1 then next it says

    "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See the Setup log files for more information."

    When I select the drive and click format it says

    "Windows cannot be installed to Disk 0 Partition 1. (Show Details)"

    Details

    "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu."
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  2. Posts : 12,012
    Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit
       #32

    Just saw your response.

    Looks like you got it sorted out.

    Select partition 1 is not needed if you want only 1 partition.

    As you discovered it is create partition primary rather than create primary partition.

    You could have made several partitions in diskpart, but you can also make them in Windows itself if needed.

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    Get antivirus going. Windows Firewall is on by default.

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  3. Posts : 152
    windows 7/windows xp/windows vista
    Thread Starter
       #33

    Sorry, I don't think you caught my edit.

    This is the first time Windows 7 has recognized my hard drive in the "where to you want to install windows" screen.

    When I select Disk 0 Partition 1 then next it says

    "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See the Setup log files for more information."

    When I select the drive and click format it says

    "Windows cannot be installed to Disk 0 Partition 1. (Show Details)"

    Details

    "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu."
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  4. Posts : 12,012
    Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit
       #34

    No, I didn't catch the edit.

    I am running out of ideas

    Try this:

    go back to diskpart and do the same commands, but make this one addition:

    just before the exit command, try the assign command

    then the exit command.

    I have never used assign myself, but you may need it to actually see a C partition. Just guessing.

    I say this because I wouldn't expect to be able to choose "Disc 0, partition 1" as a location.

    I would expect to see C.

    Somewhat confused by why you would again try to format because you already formatted in diskpart when you did format fs=ntfs quick.
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  5. Posts : 152
    windows 7/windows xp/windows vista
    Thread Starter
       #35

    Well, I just tried to format because there were no other options since it wouldn't let me to install the disk.

    I'm going through the same steps but trying a regular slowpoke format. Then what you mentioned.
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  6. Posts : 16,130
    7 X64
       #36

    try this:

    Diskpart

    sel disk 0

    detail disk

    ( let us know exactly what it says )

    exi
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  7. Posts : 12,012
    Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit
       #37

    Edit:

    go with what SIW 2 says for the time being.

    Start again with diskpart:

    diskpart

    list disk

    select disk 0

    clean

    create partition primary

    select partition 1


    active

    format fs=ntfs quick

    assign

    exit


    then continue with the install. Take a screenshot of the last step where everything looks cool.

    Take another screenshot of the first step where everything is not cool and you get some sort of failure.

    Post both screenshots in this thread.

    Someone else may have to help you. It is possible you have unknown hardware issues.
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  8. Posts : 16,130
    7 X64
       #38

    What does diskpart detail . jr?
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  9. Posts : 152
    windows 7/windows xp/windows vista
    Thread Starter
       #39

    Sorry, I'm waiting for the format to finish. I didn't do a quick one so it's taking a bit.
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  10. Posts : 152
    windows 7/windows xp/windows vista
    Thread Starter
       #40

    Disk ID : BFD8BAF7
    Type : ATA
    STATUS : Online
    Path : 0
    Target : 0
    LUN ID : 0
    Location Path : PCI ROOT(0)#PCI(1100)#ATA(C00T00L00)
    Current Read-only State: No
    Read-Only : No
    Boot Disk : No
    Pagefile Disk : No
    Hibernation File Disk : No
    Crashdump Disk : No
    Clustered Disk : No

    Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
    ------------ ---- ------ ---- ------ ----- -------- -----
    * Volume 1 NTFS 465GB Healthy
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