Setup couldn't create new system partition


  1. Posts : 3
    XP/7
       #1

    Setup couldn't create new system partition


    I'm getting this error when trying to install windows 7 rc x64:

    "Setup couldn't create new system partition"

    Then it asks me to check the setup log, but I don't know how.

    Trying to install onto the 2nd partition of a 160 gb drive, split in half. It's disk 0, the first partition is active primary and has XP. The second partition is formatted ntfs primary and when I select it in windows setup, that's when I get the error message. I let windows 7 delete it and create a new partition and formatted it, but when I select it to install windows onto, it give me the above message.

    It's a SATA drive running in native IDE mode on an AMD790GX board with a Phenom II X4 940 and 4 GB RAM.

    It doesn't seem like it would be a drivers issues, since Windows sees the drive and both partitions, allows me to delete, create and format partitions, just won't let me install onto it. Any ideas?

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  2. Posts : 4,364
    Windows 11 21H2 Current build
       #2

    How are you trying to install?
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  3. Posts : 3
    XP/7
    Thread Starter
       #3

    From DVD.
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  4. Posts : 4,364
    Windows 11 21H2 Current build
       #4

    sorry, I meant upgrade versus clean install, starting from booting off the DVD or starting from inside XP....
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  5. Posts : 3
    XP/7
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Clean install, boot from DVD.
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  6. Posts : 1
    windows xp prof
       #6

    i am having the same problem, anyone have any ideas?
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