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Can not reinstall Windows 7: "Setup couldn't create new system partition"
Can not reinstall Windows 7: "Setup couldn't create new system partition"
- My Win 7 installation is very unreliable with lots of problems concerning wake up from standby, ATI display driver crashing often and several other glitches. So I decided to do clean restart, wipe out my Win 7 installation and do a complete new install.
When I choose my former Win 7 partition, I always get an error message (I hope my translation is correct):
"Setup couldn't create a new system partition or couldn't find an existing." There's a hint to look for the installer log, but I couldn't find it.
I tried the follwing:
1) Deleting the partition
2) Deleting the partition and reformating with NTFS
3) Deleting the partition from PartedMagic, watching for a hidden partition
Nothing helped. I'm always get stucked with the same error.
So, what can I do? Any suggestions? Are there some files or partition informations left which I also have to delete?
Windows 7 x64 - Gigabyte EP-45-DS3 (Intel P45 chip set), 4GB RAM, ATI 4670- Type modifiéMark L. FergusonMVP, Modérateursamedi 21 février 2009 01:39
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- Are you using BitLocker? It can cause lot's of partition problems (but I know very little about it).
Beyond a full "low-level" format, repartitioning, and reformatting - I don't have any suggestions.
- John - There is usually a 200MB hidden system partition containing the \boot\BCD database.
I would think that PartedMagic should have seen it.Mayby there is a remnant of it somewhere.
I would zero the MBR and sector 63, the boot sector of the hidden partition. Then try again. - Thanks for your answers.
@usasma: I don't use BitLocker at the moment.
@bnborg: I read about that hidden system partition and so I already had a look with PartedMagic, but I didn't see it. I'll try it again with the latest version of PM released some days ago.
I forgot to mention that I already tried writing a new MBR using the repair console of my XP installation.
Are there any tools to delete sector 63?
Windows 7 x64 - Gigabyte EP-45-DS3 (Intel P45 chip set), 4GB RAM, ATI 4670 - When I do raw disk editing, I usually use DskProbe.exe, an old Windows Resource Kit tool.
Otherwise, I boot a Norton Utilities 2002 cd that I have and use DiskEdit.
Fixmbr in the command console only rewrites the binary code in the mbr. The partition table and disk serial number are retained. Fixboot does a similar job on a boot sector.
If you have Vista or Server 2008 available, there is a new tool, diskpart.exe. It has a clean command that will do a good job of zeroing out the mbr and all boot sectors, including hidden ones. How many partitions do you have? Are you trying to use the entire disk, or just a dedicated partition? Need a little more information about your drive layout and configuration to include other drives connected.
- My setup consists of two SATA disc, both divided into several partitions, running in AHCI mode.
On disc 1 there is one primary partition with Win XP, a second primary with Win 7 (this is the above mentioned) and the rest is occupied by a logical partition, all NTFS formatted.
The second disc contains a primary partition with another Win XP installation (for gaming), one empty partition and the rest is used by several data partitions (all NTFS).
First install of Win 7 was fine, no problems at all. As I mentioned before, I'm trying to get a stable system by starting from scratch. So I deleted the Win 7 partition and tried a new install on it. But unfortunately, without any change of my disc configuration, I'm not able to do a new installation.
I just found another thread concerning this problem.
Windows 7 x64 - Gigabyte EP-45-DS3 (Intel P45 chip set), 4GB RAM, ATI 4670- ModifiéStepinsky mercredi 4 février 2009 13:32link added
- I am having the same problem when trying to install. I can boot the install dvd or run it from vista 64 with the same results. The second partition on my drive (formatted to 60gb ntfs/primary) is visible but win7 gives me "Setup couldn't create a new system partition or couldn't find an existing."
I can't find the setup log that is mentioned and the drive partition has been resized and formatted several times to no avail.
Nvidia 750i chipset, Q6600, 8gb ram, 320gb WD eide drive.
Doesn't know a thing. - I'm having the same problem reinstalling Windows 7 on an Intel Matrix RAID 1 configuration. I adjusted the RAID volumes, so I guess the Intel RAID utility interfered with the Windows 7 hidden partition in some way. When I went to install Windows 7 the second time, I selected Partition 1 and Windows did NOT ask to create its hidden partion that time (suggesting, perhaps, that it knew it was already there). But then I couldn't get past the "Next" button on that screen.
I've tried deleting and recreating partitions, formatting them, etc. Now I'm trying the "Startup Repair" option on the Windows 7 install disk. Barring that, I guess I'll have to find some kind of third-party partitioning tool to get rid of the damn thing, or maybe low-level format the two drives and start all over.
My 2 cents: a hidden recovery partition is a nice idea, but ONLY if it's well-implemented. That means that it should be easy to handle, and it shouldn't conflict with anything -- particularly Windows 7's own reinstall! If Microsoft can't make a recovery partition that's completely transparent, they have no business making one at all. - Dude I was in your shoes and I found what the problem is... Windows install wnt allow the bios of your Pc to point at any other hdd than the one you intent to install windows on, so go to the BIOS and change the hdd order temporarilly to the hdd you will copy winblows and you will see the setup start with no delay....
- Dude I was in your shoes and I found what the problem is... Windows install wnt allow the bios of your Pc to point at any other hdd than the one you intent to install windows on, so go to the BIOS and change the hdd order temporarilly to the hdd you will copy winblows and you will see the setup start with no delay....
- This was indeed my problem. Thanks for posting your tip linuxuser77!
Just re-arranging the boot sequence in the BIOS makes Windows accept the drive. - Boot sequence rearrangement worked for Intel brd se7210tp1scsi, in which the scsi card used ADPU320.inf. Set in BIOS as first device, used BBS switch to go to dvd drive. Please pass on to U320 Adaptec users. WIN7 had drivers on release to manufact 6 AUG download
- I have the problem so I'll give the boot order a try, can't believe Windows 7 is so tetchy!
- I had the same problem, I've changed the boot order and am installing as I type this. Thank God for the interweb. Now I just wish I hadn't formatted a 500GB drive and lost all my data before looking for answers here, that'll be the lesson for today.
- I had this problem as well, I solved it by unplugging all but the drive I was trying to install Win7 to.
- Hi there,
I have the exact same problem with installing Windows 7 on a 500 GB Fujitsu harddrive.
Changing the boot order doesn't seem to work for me (the install harddrive as first boot device) and changing SATA mode from AHCI to IDE didn't do the trick as well.
Please note that I am installing Windows 7 from a bootable flash USB stick.
Concerning the boot order, do I need to follow an EXACT priority order? What should that be then?
It now is:
1. IDE0 : FUJITSU MJA2500BH G2 (the only drive and the drive I want to install Windows 7 to)
2. IDE1 :
3. USB CDROM :
4. USB FDD :
5. USB HDD : Generic-Multi-Card (this is the USB stick with the bootable Windows 7 setup)
6. Network Boot : Atheros Boot Agent
Thanks for the help.
Jeremy. - Jeremy, the USB flash might be what is confusing setup.
Setup might be interpreting the USB flash as the first hard drive. I know it shouldn't do that, but setup is pretty "dumb" at this point.
If setup is showing the 500G drive but failing to install, it could be that it is trying to put the boot files on the USB. It would fail because the drive is not formatted ntfs, or it is read-only, or it is trying to create a 200MB partition at the beginning of it and can't.
If setup is not seeing the 500G drive it needs the driver(s).
Try opening a command prompt after booting setup and selecting "repair my computer". In the prompt enter diskpart. In diskpart, try "list disk" to see all detected drives, and "list vol" to see detected volumes and assigned letters.
Brian. - I had to go into my Bios and turn off all my drive except the one I wanted to load windows 7 on. It then loaded fine. Went back into the Bios turned everything back on. Booted off my Vista disc and did a start up repair to get Vista back in the boot list. Restarted and now I get both vista and Win7 at boot up. This was way too difficult.
- Well, I couldn't change any bootsequence of the 2 harddrives. Just one option hdd among the other periphericals. So I unplugged onee of the two drives and now it's installing. Thanks for the tips.
