Can’t install windows 10 on brand new pc!

[doggchancey]

Hello, So I’ve recently built my own gaming computer and now I’m trying to install windows 10 from a flash drive to no avail. I’ve already set it up in the bios to boot into the drive and then it goes through the windows installation process. Now the problem comes when I select the only drive I have but after it does it’s thing it tells me it couldn’t be installed on that drive then gives me a 0x80300002 message each time I can’t figure what the problem could be. I’ve checked all the forums with similar issues but there had been no answer that I can find so anything here would help a lot. Thanks

 

[Rocky Bennett]

Hello,
How did you make this USB boot loader? Did you download a good ISO from Microsoft?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Did you use Rufus to create your USB stick?

https://rufus.akeo.ie/

 

[Rocky Bennett]

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-windows_install-winpc/windows-10-installer-fails-0x80300002/6020690f-ad3d-45bf-88e5-a345e31c8f39

 

[doggchancey]

I used Microsoft’s software to creat the media on their website

 

[marksavio]

can you list down the specifics of your hardware? win10 may not be supported for your motherboard.

that install error usually means that you didnt format/delete partitions on the drive you are trying to install to. please make sure you ONLY have one drive attached to your motherboard during your window install.

you can try this. on the first install screen. press shift+F10 until a command prompt pops up.
type the following

• diskpart
  list disk
  select disk 0
  clean

do the install again. select your drive. select new. and see if everything is working normally.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Clean your drive using diskpart before installing windows onto it.
(You can do that, when you boot from windows installation media and go to command prompt)
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-clean-and-format-storage-drive-using-diskpart-windows-10

 

[doggchancey]

can you list down the specifics of your hardware? win10 may not be supported for your motherboard.

that install error usually means that you didnt format/delete partitions on the drive you are trying to install to. please make sure you ONLY have one drive attached to your motherboard during your window install.

you can try this. on the first install screen. press shift+F10 until a command prompt pops up.
type the following

• diskpart
  list disk
  select disk 0
  clean

do the install again. select your drive. select new. and see if everything is working normally.

Ok I’ll try that, I didn’t think that I had to considering it’s a brand new drive right out of the packaging, also yes there is only one drive on the Mb. Also it’s a gigabyte b250m

 

[marksavio]

yes that was the part im also confused about. but no harm in doing the steps i showed you.

 

[doggchancey]

Nope that didn’t work it’s the same message.

 

[marksavio]

i think its time you have to show us the specs of your hardware. at least the SSD drive and the motherboard you are using. if you have a laptop/different pc you may need to run a diagnostics test on your brand new harddrive from its manufacturers tool.

 

[doggchancey]

i think its time you have to show us the specs of your hardware. at least the SSD drive and the motherboard you are using. if you have a laptop/different pc you may need to run a diagnostics test on your brand new harddrive from its manufacturers tool.

It’s a disk drive by WD 1 tb, and the motherboard is a gigabyte b250m-ds3h no ssd here I sacrificed that for a better cpu and gpu

 

[marksavio]

okay you will need this tool here from WD and follow the onscreen instructions
https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=3

you can also just create a USB UEFI version of the tool and boot this from your new hardware with your WD drive attached.
https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=2

 

[doggchancey]

Is it possible it’s a faulty drive?

 

[marksavio]

did you try the link @skynetrising showed you?

yes it may be a faulty drive. you can however try to fix it with some diagnostics test with the WD tool. or you can RMA the drive. :/

 

[doggchancey]

okay you will need this tool here from WD and follow the onscreen instructions
https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=3

you can also just create a USB UEFI version of the tool and boot this from your new hardware with your WD drive attached.
https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=2

So I booted it into the flash drive named SanDisk instead of UEFI sand disk partition 1 and now windows is saying I need to make sure the disks controller is enabled in the computer bios what’s that all about?

 

[marksavio]

okay you will have to go into BIOS. restart and press F2/DEL. check your SATA config is set to AHCI. SMART enabled.
check to see if SATA port 0 detected your hard drive.
go to your BOOT, USB settings and check if UEFI /legacy is enabled.

 

[unclebun]

It might be better to use a USB drive that doesn't have its own overlay like a Sandisk does. You may be having trouble because their USB drives want to run their drive manager when first inserted/started, rather than what you put on the USB drive. So when Windows Setup restarts and wants to continue, it can't find the "setup disk" because the Sandisk OS gets in the way.

 

[doggchancey]

So I think I might have figured something out but now I can’t seem to fix the current problem, I converted the partition style to gpt because for some reason it didn’t do it on its own, and now I have and error saying data error cycle redundancy check. How do I go about fixing that?

 

[unclebun]

Cyclic redundancy check error is usually fixed by running Checkdisk (CHKDSK) to repair a faulty disk.

 

[doggchancey]

unfortunately I already tried running that command through the windows installation start up screen, but it can’t check the drive. I typed in chkdsk / and The hard drive number which is 0 but I don’t know if that’s the correct input

 

[unclebun]

unfortunately I already tried running that command through the windows installation start up screen, but it can’t check the drive. I typed in chkdsk / and The hard drive number which is 0 but I don’t know if that’s the correct input

To run chkdsk in Windows 10 setup, you have to be able to get to the command prompt. This web page has instructions for that: https://winaero.com/blog/open-command-prompt-boot-windows-10/

At the command prompt type
systeminfo
and press <ENTER>

This will display a bunch of information about the computer, including the location of Windows, which would normally be C:\Windows. In this case, C: would be the letter of the drive. Once you know the drive letter, you can then run chkdsk by typing:
chkdsk n /r
and pressing <ENTER>, where n is the letter of the drive.
The modifier /r means to repair.

 

[doggchancey]

There is no operating system installed yet it’s giving me this error right out of the packaging.

 

[unclebun]

The instructions I gave allow you to run chkdsk right from Windows Setup, from the Windows Setup screen that asks for language of install, time and currency format, and keyboard type.

 

[doggchancey]

Ok, so I ran the chkdsk in the prompt and it told there are problems in the uppercase file but now it’s says to type chkdsk/f but when I do it’s saying windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write protected

 

[unclebun]

Ok, so I ran the chkdsk in the prompt and it told there are problems in the uppercase file but now it’s says to type chkdsk/f but when I do it’s saying windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write protected

In the Command Prompt window, type chkdsk E: /f /r /x and press Enter. Here you should replace E with the drive letter of your PC hard drive.

This command will unmount the disk and removes any write protection status on the device. In this case, you can get chkdsk working again and will no longer see 'Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write protected' error message.