Windows Can't Be Installed On This Drive

Windows Can't Be Installed On This Drive
How do you fix Windows can't be installed on this drive? There is a number of things you can try to fix windows 11 can't be installed. Either the the selected disk is GPT partition or the selected disk is MBR partition. This is a very common error which occurs during Windows installation of Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1 or Windows 7 during the Windows Setup, it will report the error "Windows cannot be installed to this disk".
1. Check Your BIOS
2. Convert an MBR Disk to GPT
3. Convert an GPT to MBR
4. Try to Disable EFI Boot Sources
5. Boot into UEFI mode
6. Boot into Legacy mode
Once at Windows Setup, press "Shift + F10" to open Command Prompt.
Enter the following commands:
diskpart
list disk
select disk
clean
convert gpt
exit
close command prompt
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[@computersrepaircotesaint-l7407]

new install windows 7 2022

[@int4d]

Have an odd issue that just started and can't find a repair. Using Windows 10 pro. I7 proc, 500gb SSD half full, 8gb ram. Running Office 365. Suddenly opening any program, Excel, Word, PowerPoint whatever I get the same message. "There isn't enough.memory to complete this action try using less data or closing applications. To increase memory availability. Consider using a 64-bit version of Microsoft Excel". Same message on each office program with the last word indicating that program. Everything else on the computer runs super fast. Reinstalled office 365. Didn't help. A lot out there recently about that error code so I gather it's trending for some reason. None of the fixes I find help. Most vague generic ideas. Check out that error code and you'll see what I mean. The voice of reason is needed. Ideas?

[@flow_5527]

need help do you know how to fix my computer I can dm u pictures bc it is stuck on the overclocking

[@freddypower6217]

working with a FTP- server !

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

You cleaning Windows off of a HD or SSD and installing a proper adult's OS like Linux on it as a friendly OS that you're not constantly fighting against. Well, you did ask! You do owe it to your subscribers to help them make their computing environments as simple and easy as possible - and I've just given you the answer. You're welcome, you can thank me later.

[@shsechas]

Just stopping by to once again tell you how much us viewers appreciate your channel. You explain everything so well. Have a great and safe 4th.

[@Britec09]

So nice of you and happy 4th of July

[@taswarsafin6214]

@@Britec09 I had watched your video of windows 10 installation from Windows 8.1 and try to do it in my pc. But after the progression of installation reach 65%, I got a message that the windows installation failed. Can you please help me in this regard?

[@marycakeu]

I've finally found the 100% Perfect answer for my problem after watching countless tutorials that didn't even talked about this part. Thank you sooo much!💯

[@GR8GUY54]

Very common problem. Easy fix, but many may not know. Good video for those that need this. On a laptop it's FN+F8 for command prompt and same procedure afterward.

[@Britec09]

It is a very common problem, but can confuse some users

[@paultaylor7691]

Certainly confused me, lol but thank you for the explanations now.

[@codiethompson3401]

This was exactly what I needed! Hours of reading official Microsoft forums cannot compare to how good this 8min video was!

[@steve6375]

It all depends on how you boot to Windows Setup. If you UEFI-boot then Windows INSISTS on installing to a GPT drive (or a clean drive). If you legacy boot, then Windows INSISTS on installing to a MBR partitioned drive (or a clean drive). Even if you delete all partitions from a drive, it is still either GPT or MBR, so you must CLEAN it (which clears first few sectors which determine which type it is). So it is really important to know which mode you have booted in. If your boot drive is over 2TB you will need to use GPT and thus you will need to UEFI-boot. However, in this particular case, it was a BIOS issue...

[@Britec09]

That is correct

[@Beast80K]

Hey sir ! Thank you for all these videos, they are very helpful after every windows install I always refer few videos of your channel to optimise it. I would like to ask you is there any way by which I can make an ISO of windows with pre-installed software ?

[@Britec09]

Yes you can

[@roballen7937]

OMG!! Thank you so much for this Post!! I am sitting here in the sticks in Thailand and just ran into this issue and have never seen it before in my 40 plus years of working with Microsoft products and all of the previous versions of Windows. I knew I liked you and your Channel as soon as I saw your Videos!! You are a lifesaver for sure!! Rob Allen in Ban Huai Sai Tai, Phetchaburi Province, Thailand 🌴🐒🌴🐘🐒🐘 Warm Regards and a Tip o'the Hat to You ,Sir!! 😄😄😄😎👍👍👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@tvenergyproductions1]

You are wonderful! I thought I would have to go through the procedure of taking the SSD out of the laptop until I saw this great video. Many thanks.

[@USArmyVet91]

Omg such an easy fix. I tried for hours to make my ssd able to work on my legacy Dell BIOS. Don’t know why I didn’t come here first. It was as simple as cleaning the disk. Thanks again for your help. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@jerrycurtis98]

In a recent video you mentioned a computer being very busy even when no one is using it. My son has that "problem" with his Dell Win10. As soon as anyone touches the keyboard, the disk activity stops. I started task manager and looked at that when the activity began, and it was some Microsoft program running. I'll have to check it again and try your recommendation. Thanks for your frequent, informative videos.

[@inertiagaming9489]

Seriously was shaking thinking i had bricked my PC. Loading windows now, youre an absolute real one dude!

[@viper2588]

Thank you!! Doing a fresh install of win11, I deleted my original partition and was unable to install because of this error. I had no idea shift F10 could bring up the command prompt while booting off a flash drive. Life saver!

[@todduyeda5929]

This was very helpful. I replaced a HDD on a very old HP TouchSmart 600 all in one PC. (This AIO is really cool and I've yet to find a better one, except the MS Surface Studio, but that is over $4000). I did this previously with a Samsung SSD and Windows 10 installed easily. After a power outage, something happened to my PC (still not sure what) which crippled it but didn't kill it completely. I switched to a different brand SSD (Silicon Power) and the Windows 10 install balked. The new SSD came as GPT with 4 partitions (not sure why). I followed your instructions. Now it's MBR and a single partition. Windows 10 installed no problem. Thank you.

[@johngoard8272]

Great video Brian as this is a problem I used to have a lot in the past and your explanation and fix is one I wish I had back then, and one that can now be fixed by those so affected.👍

[@Britec09]

Thanks 👍

[@walter_lesaulnier]

Diskpart is also great for getting rid of locked boot partitions so you can repurpose the drive. I use it a lot when distro hopping or to do a completely clean Windows reinstall.

[@heinrichbosch4040]

Life saver! I was about to completely give up and go to a technician.

[@TheWorld-of7dd]

When i type convert gpt or mbr didn't work, disk part has encountered an error, data error ,( cyclic redundancy check)😢 , how in the world did you got into that bios menu anyway

[@jerseyjoe2684]

Thank you, Brian. Very informative! 👍

[@Britec09]

My pleasure!

[@kennethhicks2113]

Had this issue when doing 21h2 upgrade as drives where not uefi (data updates over years and never got around to changing on said pc). Ditto the steps I took that resolved it (used 3rd party tools for disk part tho). Great info and thanks for keeping older tech viable. And can I ask a potentially sensitive question? ... is it inappropriate to wish Happy 4th of July to ya'll? If so, have a great day and my apologies.

[@Britec09]

Happy 4th of July, hope you have a lovely day.

[@windycl111]

come on this is the USA it is the 4th and you must wish a happy 4th of July don't fall for the left CRAP please

[@_vinke]

Even after I'm able to install windows onto the drive, after the computer resets, it goes back to the installer and if I remove the usb installer after the installation during the reset, it boots I to bios?? I don't know what I'm missing

[@hoylematt1]

You are a gentleman and a Scholar! Thank you!

[@djsupers2419]

i have been trying to fix this for the past 2hours and with this vid it worked instantly!! thank you so much!!!!!!!

[@mybuddy3119]

Really good explanation. Previously my main drive was partitioned into 3 and one of them is the windows file drive. When i tried to migrate to new hard drive or clean install from windows creation media, this locked windows drive kept preventing me from installing new Windows. Just now i changed the drive to from GPT to MBR, finally i was able to delete the locked partition and migrate to the new drive clean. Thanks very much sir.

[@seasonstudios]

Thanks for this Britec09. I have a couple of old PCs that I couldn't install for the reasons you mentioned. Now I'm a little bit further along as to a possibility as to why.

[@sox3883]

You wonderful human being, been struggling to figure out what was wrong with my computer. You are a life saver. And I wish the best moving forward!!!!

[@jmangames5562]

What if after it restarts it just wants to download windows over and over? Mine downloads it after fixing this but then after it does the restart it wants me to do it over. If I take out the usb it then says put in boot device and restart. I just did brand new build the other day went flawless now using a used m.2 I’ve been 6 hour’s trying to find help. Anybody?

[@legacy4496]

Ever figure it out

[@GamingXPOfficial]

Fix boot load order

[@l7r1cs]

Take your usb out lol

[@dekawer]

I’m in the same situation rn… how did you do it?

[@KeronBullock]

Great video! I've never encountered this issue but at least if I do I'll know what to do. 👍

[@Britec09]

Thanks for watching

[@KeronBullock]

@@Britec09 you're very welcome

[@LysergicSigma]

I just wanted to say thank you, this video helped me a lot! I left a like on your video as well. By the way you sound like Korg from Thor love and thunder

[@juusonihtila11]

Just gotta say, i thought i was good with computers before discovering you, but now as ive been lesrning from your vids i say im getting to a master level❤ Youve helped me so much with these little tweaky and neat tutorials i cant even comprehend it properly🥹 Keep up the great work❤

[@GOLDENSTARS.]

Sir,may God bless you.thank you so much.i watched more than 8 videos but it's only yours that worked.thank you so much🎉

[@codeyrockz91]

You just saved my Chromebook, God bless you :)

[@CoolDudeClem]

This was always a bit of a stumbling block for me, although the last time I installed windows, I did it without using the command prompt.

[@Britec09]

It can be very confusing when this happens.

[@talkindia24]

Very Nicely Explained.... Thanks and love from Kolkata,India❤️❤️❤️

[@debbiewyatt8013]

Your video was so informative and easy to follow. This worked for me. Thank you.

[@kensmith5694]

It seems a shame to have to work so hard to get buggy software on a machine. People expected that as computer science matured, things would get simpler to do but this has not been the trend of late. We moved from typing commands at a prompt to have a menu and icons. Now we have moved back where people type the names of commands into a search bar (smaller command prompt). There is this thing called "Fit's law" that suggests that things you are likely to want to do next should always be the smallest number of actions (mouse clicks, key presses) away from your current condition. This is being ignored too.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

Nobody has to do it. I rid myself of my Microsoft abuser when Windows 7 support ended, even though Linux had been my main OS since 2003. That's your answer, right there.

[@kensmith5694]

@@terrydaktyllus1320 I already switched to Linux. The last Windows I bought was Win-98

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

@@kensmith5694 I was responding to the general point you were making. I've never met you, how do I know what OS you run unless you specifically state it? Besides which, your comment was about your disappointment in people having to work hard to get buggy software installed. My response was simply to not attempt to install that buggy software in the first place.

[@kensmith5694]

@@terrydaktyllus1320 There is no reason for use to get into a disagreement over this. Much of what I commented was for the lurkers to understand that this was two people who are happy with Linux discussing the weakness in the design of Windows. No reason to get into a disagreement, that is, so long as you agree my distro is better than yours. If not then we can proceed to have a "religious war".

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

@@kensmith5694 Clearly we disagree! But your bad choices ultimately don't affect me, so I am happy to close the conversation there.

[@apittora1016]

It's working after the convert gpt part , many thanks brother

[@AlecRife]

Mine was right with the first GPT guide, thank you so much. My first time doing major upgrades and I just couldn’t let it go that the disk is still at 100% and Hogwarts Legacy was crashing with a new 32GB DDR5 MSI MPG Z690 Carbon motherboard with a 11GB GTX 1080Ti FE. Hope it’s smooth sailing from here

[@AlecRife]

Also my Processor is i9-12900k

[@jorgearneros8592]

thank you so much i followed this smuck titurial how to install windos and ended up with that error thought it was a lost case thx working at 100% now aprecite you

[@mr_alonewave_yt]

Thank you so much you are a live saver . I was soo worried i have to take my Laptop to the technician and be charge. Thank you so much God belss you

[@sarfrajkhan2705]

Thank you u save my time and money i lost all hope but your trick working for me thank you man love from india

[@larrywatkins9553]

i don't know if this is going to work but its been the closest i've been to installing windows yet, thank you for getting me this close

[@AliAbdullah-gb4rs]

🎉🎉 Man O Man hats off to you some stupid youtuber made me think of losing my SSD you saved A lot of time and money subs is given with a like

[@Reshaeelniazi]

Thank you so much this video was so helpful your a legend you have just earned yourself a subscriber

[@chrisbullock6477]

Thanks a lot. After 2 days of trying to figure it out, converting it to GPT helped for my ryzen 7950X 3D on the gigabyte b650i mini ITX motherboard

[@yychummer]

Once again, you saved me several hours of searching for results

[@PaulsTechSpace]

Thank you for this wonderful tutorial, it was really easy to follow along.

[@adrielsilva5365]

im from Brasil and your video helped me so much. im so thankful

[@a.j.haverkamp4023]

I have had errors on that point with Windows 10. Drive errors. They were caused by having another USB stick plugged into the PC, next to the Windows installation USB stick. Removing that stick and start all over fixed it. Just unplugging and refreshing isn’t enough. It required a complete new start of the installation.

[@dcc1906]

I started this process but formatted my usb drive to NTFS first before downloading Win 10 to it. To my surprise install completed in 5 minutes without doing anything to the bios or using diskpart.

[@b.w.9816]

Thank you! You showed me exactly what I needed to fix my issue.

[@Jay_Kay_Redpill]

Brilliant video, simple solution, very very well explained!

[@saikiran-narikias]

Cmd not opening what should i do 😢. I converting Ubuntu to windows 8

[@gameblazer_yt]

I got what I needed from the first 3m of your video. Thanks bruv 😊

[@Hapji.Official]

You are a life saver man. Thanks

[@brycestewart3181]

Thx for sharing and I understand why you did what you did, but, uefi and gpt are preferred for windows 10. Was that laptop bios and the harddrive some how not compatable or able to do the uefi/gpt ???

[@Britec09]

it was a laptop off of Ebay and had windows 10 on it. Probably was installed as MBR. But UEFI, Secure Boot, GPT is normal for Windows 10/11

[@lamingibba4797]

THANK U SURE MUCH... YOU HAVE BEEN A GREAT TEACHER HERE.. GOD BLESS U

[@Samkims3]

This is what have been looking for, thanks buddy.

[@ARTBYDJVIC]

Thank you very much. 🎉 Happy New Year's.

[@Kirk-cf1vj]

Thank you so much. You saved me from a nightmare

[@sunnywayne1719]

OMG! im facing to this problem to yesterday with DELL laptop & i tried so many things and not work anything. i think this is the problem yesterday im facing with.. thank you so much.. i will try and check this method 🙄😪😊

[@Britec09]

Glad I could help

[@wp5355]

Thanks for the great information!!

[@Britec09]

Our pleasure!

[@ARTBYDJVIC]

My Scan disk just showed a bunch of definitions. Tried to also change them GPT and MBR. I have windows installed in a USB and in the SSD. No HDD in the PC. Just purchased the SSD and added Windows. All I was able to do so far. Thanks

[@mouaadelbaz9179]

Thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏🙏 with this video finally i got windows on my laptop ❤

[@bison345]

Useful and helpful as usual Brian, thanks very much.

[@Britec09]

My pleasure!

[@danmutum6182]

You are too much bro, thank you so much 🙏 I was able to fixed mine successfully 🙌

[@dedr4m]

In the dell "BIOS", I just click the "delete boot option" and then MS Windows will "see" the HDD, works every time... The reason it can't is because "Windows Boot Manager" is already "assigned" to the internal HDD by the UEFI boot table.... The method shown just changes the PC to boot in the old BIOS fashion and thus disables upgrading to Windows 11.... Which IMHO is a good thing as Linux is much better on anything, especially older machines. I do wish that Dell just incorporated a UEFI shell directly in the boot ROM (AKA "BIOS" for the lesser tech savvy), then it's a case of making an OS-less system that uses the UEFI shell as the operating-system and run apps atop of (I'm sure someone's already ported DOOM to UEFI directly, audio and all.... Just need to make a universal "sound driver" for the HD-Audio subsystems in AMD and Intel chipsets/SoC... Then it'll defo be like the good ol' pre-DOS days, AKA Amiga/IBM-BIOS ROM-Basic/etc)

[@ARandomSoftware]

Smart old man! Thank you very much

[@MrTriplip]

I would have done over the windows flash drive to GPT and leave the bios settings to uefi

[@Britec09]

Just show all options, I will set secure boot and UEFI and then install

[@jukiVR707]

Thank you it fix my pc and made me happy after it broke two times thanks

[@markharrisllb]

On my dual boot machine I keep my Manjaro Disk, which is my main SSD, as MBR and my Windows SSD, which is in a caddy where the optical drive was, as GPT. That way my Windows doesn’t mess up my Linux. My Linux sees my Windows but my Windows doesn’t see my Linux and it’s a lot safer and more stable that way. For some reason Microsoft likes to mess up dual boot machines, which is a bit silly in my opinion as it puts you off Windows and not Linux. I pretty sure I set up Windows as a single drive in the usual place first before moving it to where the OD was. It was some time ago that I set it up and being a boomer the memory isn’t what it was. After I moved that disk and put another where the original one was I installed Manjaro on what then was the main disk and it created the appropriate boot loader finding the Windows OS.

[@johnpaulbacon8320]

Thanks for this very well done and detailed video.

[@bobseng2791]

Thanks alot been looking all over for this explanation made easy

[@Britec09]

No problem 👍

[@mikesgarage394]

Use the USB drive in a USB 2 slot, and or use USB 2 drive. There are issues with USB3 and windows partitioning with Precision T3600. Moved USB3 drive to USB2 slot and it worked during install. Clean, diskpart etc did not allow win10 to partition.

[@ramonchis9663]

Thank you!! I could install windows 11 with gbt, mbr fixed it

[@Myself-sv3tp]

thanks dude. Helped a lot

[@ghostrecon2945]

nice work i was thinking o converting using another merchine i dint know i could do it on the same one. thanx

[@johngoard8272]

Meant to add that these are the videos that are so helpful.

[@Britec09]

Glad you like them!

[@Raphael-jz6nf]

Great video! I'm having this same issue I had widows 10 on it before, but I ended up getting a virus. Working with Sabrent m.2, Asus motherboard and trendmicro to take care of the virus. So I was going to reinstall windows and this is what kept happening, It also kept adding more partitions 11 or 12. How do I add the partitions that can be added to the m.2 and get rid of the other ones to start over. Please respond

[@knabemos]

Thank you kind sir. You fixed it for me.

[@damianwilliamson9015]

This worked amazingly thank you kind sir

[@fernandozornosa6398]

Great tip with that issues "uefi or legacy" thanks for your advice....

[@user-to6mi3rg7s]

Thanks a lot my problem solved thanks brother you are my lifesaver

[@PhreddCrintt]

Excellent! Thank you Brian.

[@Britec09]

My pleasure!

[@WrestlingFace]

Good video, nice thumbnail 😛

[@Britec09]

Thanks 😅

[@joshuakipela3787]

can you to a video how to fix the windows 7 i need to get a intel sd host controller pls because i tried to download it for days pls make a video about that

[@jameskilgour4227]

thank you for this video it was very helpful setting up window 11 on a new computer. thank you again great job

[@Britec09]

Glad it helped

[@samuelswai6857]

Thank you very much sir u help me Full....🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@den17u89]

this really helped me. thank you so much for the advice.

[@ARandomSoftware]

Jesus fucking Christ this man, is a hardware hero

[@gordonp57]

I can truthfully say, I hardy understood a word of that. An unusual video 🤔

[@Britec09]

Why an unusual video? this is a very common error.

[@gordonp57]

@@Britec09 I haven't even heard the terms let alone come across the problem

[@allengower669]

If I can't install win 11 to a hard drive then how am I supposed to use the console ?

[@rsbff4521]

Awesome worked perfectly, thanks so much!

[@godsonappiah2996]

Thanks man it worked for me ☺️

[@ErichH68]

It always seems to do that when you don’t use a new hard drive. I just scrub the drive with a hard drive eraser and then none of those problems occur.

[@beyoutillfull9695]

We really do appreciate it, good sir. Thank you thank you ❤

[@kesharigaming6040]

Bro i can't create partition in my ssd when i enter those commandb it says 3 option -partition -volume and - vdisk And also error The object not found

[@SepehrShahJahani]

The clean command will delete data too ????

[@RussCrowley]

Very helpful. Thanks.

[@realmejeremy]

Tech guy but this is a lot harder than I thought I really like this computer I got for free unfortunately it's Windows 7 so far I've got to where you are where it won't install on the partitions but I think I deleted Windows 7. So can I do all those steps you mentioned? I got kind of a bootleg copy of Windows 10 with the activator Maybe I just don't want to pay for Windows 10 it's useless in a few years and they already have Windows 11 and these people don't need our money.