Error: "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See the Setup log files for more information"
Are you are seeing this error (above) while trying to install Windows 7 from a bootable USB?
Now what you are going to do is this -> after booting and selecting the language, but before clicking the "Install" button, remove the USB drive, wait a second, then reinsert it.
Then continue as you were thinking it would go.
Hope I helped you today!
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Holly crap it worked for me too. from other research I figured out that I would have to either use a DVD disk to install Windows or take the hard drive out of the PC and format it elsewhere. I guess there may have been another option to use some sort of Linux bootable USB thing to format the disk.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, all that was not needed.
What I did was after selecting the language, I clicked OK and then Windows gave me an error message saying that the installation disk was removed from drive D. Mind you Windows was being installed off a USB flash drive.
So I placed the USB stick back into the USB port. Clicked OK thinking that Windows would find it. Instead it rebooted (i.e. hot boot).
However, this time after I deleted the partitions that I made earlier Windows was able to create a new partition properly.
I noticed that this time Windows was able to create a 100MB partition first and then create the primary partition.
I think that that 100MB system partition may be needed for NTFS to store its references but I may be wrong.
Either way, it now installed like a champ.
Thank you!!!
THANK YOU! This worked. After trying (and trying, and trying...) to format, create new partition etc, I found this post. I ended up rebooting and following the above tip and now Win7 is installing.
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ReplyDeleteWTF... thanks, i was about to commit a tech sin if i had to restart this one more time
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DeleteLike everyone else here, I was ready to jump from a bridge until I found your simple yet totally unintuitive fix. Who would have guessed? Yet again, take the team of "programmers" and feed them to large tank of piranhas for ever letting that stupid winner make it past beta testing.
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ReplyDeleteyep it works...after it restarts pull out usb drive and leave it out and windows will load as its suppose to
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ReplyDeleteI'd been struggling with the same problem for days after installing a SSD in my netbook.
Simple and worked first time!
Many thanks for this. I encountered this error while installing win7 next to a linux install using a sd card reader. Some of the "solutions" found elsewhere are quite funny (like formatting the target drive, seriously). Anyway it sounds to install smoothly now. Thanks again.
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ReplyDeleteAfter hours of faffing trying to get my SSD working....and it was this simple.Many thanks. I had changed all the .BIOS boot order, removed myDVD drive but couldn't work out how to stop it seeing the USB key I was using. I even tried removing the USB before choosing the Partition but NO - you have to remove it just as Robin Says!!!!!!
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ReplyDeleteFirst I think is a bad joke (After 4 hrs surfing in the net).
ReplyDeleteOkay give a try... Surprise! IT WORKS! Thanks a lot!
AMAZING! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteDude you're a life saver, this works also with DVD install,spent hours trying to figure out what was going on, thank you
ReplyDeleteFOR ANY OF THOSE WHO THIS DOESNT WORK FOR :
ReplyDeleteFor me this didn't work the first time I tried it, nor the 2nd or 3rd or 4th time. I was pulling my hair out reading all these comments of ppl who it worked for.....but I kept trying it, and eventually it just worked.....I would say the only thing different I did the last time is I only unplugged the usb key for about 2 seconds and then immediately clicked install now pretty much right after I inserted the usb key again.....
I have no idea why the timing of these things would be that precise and important but thats what what ended up working for me even after it appeared like this wasn't going to help me at all
I am glad you finally had it working.
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Thank you!!! It worked great
ReplyDeleteWhen you had to select where to install I removed the USB stick for one second, and was finally able to install
Ho-lee shit. Thank you dude. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I also spent a long time looking for a solution. The only other solution I found was to format the USB Flash Drive (being used to install windows) into FAT32. But my custom image file was larger than 4 GB, so that didn't help.
ReplyDeleteThis didn't work for me, tried about 20 times, if I take it out for too long I get the error: .Windows is unable to install to the selected location' but if I do a refresh I'm back at the previous error. No idea why this would work, I've got to put my 2c in.
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ReplyDeleteDammm MS, it worked for me too. Thanks
ReplyDeleteThanks, it worked perfectly. All the other sites I checked had generic run of the mill answers, like "format your drive first", meh.
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ReplyDeletehad a severe headache for like 3-4 hrs trying to find the damn solution.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for help! It worked but not really the way it says, It did not work by unpluging usb flash drive before Install button, but what I did, was on the screen with your partitions, (I had 100 meg of reserved, 250 gb - My all data and 215 gb) partitions), I deleted 100 meg one and 215 gb one and then DID not format, just Unplugged USB and pressed NEXT, obvious did not work, then plugged back in, pressed NEXT again, error message again, Unplugged usb, pressed next, and like this few time until it started istalling, weird but it worked, it seems my SanDisk 16 GB does not like Booting from it, I know friends 4 gig one worked just fine. Nearly smashed my laptop but at the end managed to install that damned Windows. THANKS AGAIN FOR HELP!!! p.s Sorry for my english.
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ReplyDeleteWHAT!!!!...How Crazy is that! Like the many others above me I had also worked by googler out trying to fix this lame MS flaw through using disk part > active, changing my BIOS Boot order, disabling other SATA drivers, etc to no avail. Your solution actually worked for me...THANKS!!!!!
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