Computer's hardware may not support booting to the disk - windows 8.1 installation

[Lolfish47]

I recently built a PC and planned to take my hard drive out of the old PC and into the new. I have seen others with this problem, and i HAVE set my SATA to AHCI, AND enabled SMART. I deleted ALL my partitions from the drive, but i still get this error message. my hard drive has had windows xp erased from it. My motherboard is the Asus m5a78l-m/usb3 running BIOS version 1801, build date 11/12/13 (I took this from my BIOS, don't know if it's what you guys need)

 

[saint19]

Hi and welcome to Tom's forum.

What error or message do you get at the installation process?

 

[Lolfish47]

Hi and welcome to Tom's forum.

What error or message do you get at the installation process?

I get the message when trying to select an unallocated drive (the one i formatted):

"Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu."

 

[saint19]

Could you take a picture of that installation window? Just exactly at the moment before that error show up...

Are you using an SSD or HDD? Remember that SATA configuration in BIOS should be AHCI.

 

[Lolfish47]

Could you take a picture of that installation window? Just exactly at the moment before that error show up...

Are you using an SSD or HDD? Remember that SATA configuration in BIOS should be AHCI.

I'm using a HDD, and i have set the SATA configuration in BIOS to AHCI, will get a picture of the screen.

**EDIT:** Being hopeless at the picture attachment url from my desktop, i can describe it until able to attach images.

On the "Where do you want to install Windows?" screen, the setup shows me 2 drives. The USB drive i am installing windows FROM, and the drive i want to install it TO. The drive names are:
USB: Drive 0 Partition 1: Hard Drive - and under the "type" column, it says "system".
HDD: Drive 1 Unallocated Space - But no "system" under type.

On selecting the USB Drive, the only options which aren't greyed out are Load driver & Refresh.
Upon selecting the HDD, only Refresh, Load Driver & New are available options.
There is a line of text saying "Windows can't be installed on this drive", which upon clicking, shows the error message. This message appears even if you select a different drive.

 

[saint19]

What happen if in Drive 1, you select "new" and select "create"? Basically in those two steps your are giving a format to the HDD.

After that, select the "formatted" partition and try to install the OS, let me know the results.