Can’t install windows 10 on brand new pc!

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doggchancey

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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
 
I guess I’m just not understanding too well, I can’t seem to find the drive letter I thought the system establishes a letter when it installs windows on the device. I’ve tried the systeminfo command in the cmd prompt but it doesn’t register as a command. Am I typing something wrong? Also is this typical for a hard drive to be defective out of the box? Or is possible there is another problem with the rest of the hardware that’s causing this?
 

My apologies. I thought you were getting farther along in the windows setup.

Yes, it is possible for a drive to be defective right out of the box.

Get the Western Digital Data Lifeguard software and install it on a USB drive using the instructions from here, and have it test your drive: https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=2
You will need that test result to RMA the drive.