Impossible to rebuild MBR

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  1. kalis8
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    Impossible to rebuild MBR


    hi people!
    on my laptop i have no OS installed and no partitions and windows cannot create partitions during installation, the disk cannot be written on apparently, i tried all the prompt commands to rebuild the MBR and other programs like mbrfix and ultimate boot cd but no result...i cannot find a solution to rebuild the MBR and create and format partitions to install windows. i have a dell xps 13 9333 with ssd 256gb, i did the bios tests and all are positive so i cannot understand if it is a hardware problem.
    i searched A LOT before asking for help!
    during installation when windows tries to format partitions mostly i got error 0x80070057 and once i got error 0x80042404
    anybody ANY suggestion on how to rebuild the MBR? Please I'm going crazy any help and advice is greatly appreciated Thanks a lot
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  3. samuria
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    Just delete all partitions DO NOT create any then let windows create what it needs you may be trying to create a the mbr on a gpt disk https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/...tall-windows-7
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  4. Bat 1
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    Not a Samsung SSD ?

    Installed USB3 Drivers into Install Media ?
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  6. kalis8
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    Bat 1 said:
    Not a Samsung SSD ?
    no it's a liteonit...btw why?
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  7. Bat 1
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    kalis8 said:
    no it's a liteonit...btw why?
    Special Drivers. You did integrate the USB3 Drivers into both the Install and Boot wims ?
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  8. kalis8
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    what do you mean by "special drivers"?...i didn't do that, it's a totally new procedure please explain what it's about and how do i do that?
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  10. Ranger4
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    kalis8. This MS website should help you. Read through it & follow the directions. Do you have a Windows 7 installation DVD, which you will need to use to follow the directions in the website.

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...tall-windows-7
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  11. kalis8
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    @samuria and ranger4 thanks as i wrote i did a lot of research and tried that solution too...it worked once then i wanted to clean install win10 so i cleaned the ssd and tried to format again, from that point win7 nor win10 can format the partition for installation, as i wrote i tried other commands (diskpart, chkdsk which says the disk is blocked and cannot repair) and programs like ubcd and mbrfix
    @bat1 please as soon as you read reply thanks!
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  12. kalis8
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    i tried to clean the disk with Active@killdisk (hardware level wiping) and result is:
    "Cannot update device Fixed Disk 1 (/dev/sda). I/O error"

    i run deep bios tests and they are all positive! this is the first problem in years i cannot solve

    so is my sdd faulty or maybe it's something else like missing drivers, firmware or what?
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  13. SIW2
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    is my sdd faulty
    Go to the drive manufacturer website , they may have a tool for checking/fixing drive problems.
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