Wednesday, August 19, 2015

how to solve "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition" in windows installing



  1. Boot windows installation from USB drive
    how to solve "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition" in windows installing
    how to solve "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition" in windows installing
  2. Press Shift+F10
  3. In console type diskpart.exe and press enter. In this program execute following:
    1. select disk=0. Disk 0 is your destination drive, so be careful, all information on this drive will be removed.
    2. create partition primary size=xxx, where xxx – is the size of new partition
    3. select partition=1
    4. active
    5. format fs=ntfs quick
    6. assign
    7. exit, now you have bootable drive C
  4. Navigate to USB flash drive, in my case: cd d:
  5. Copy all files from USB drive to C: drive: xcopy d: c: /e /h /k
  6. Go to boot folder: cd boot
  7. Make you C: drive bootable with following command: bootsect /nt60 c:
  8. Put off USB drive from computer and restart them.
  9. Install Windows
  10. Remove unnecessary menu item from bootscreen:
    1. Run cmd.exe as Administrator
    2. See boot menu list bcdedit
    3. Find Windows Setup and copy identifier
    4. Run bcdedit /delete {identifier}
  11. PROFIT!

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