Formatted and deleted ssd during fresh windows 7 installation

[gensi]

Hi all,

Building a pc from scratch and made a huge mistake. Put everything together and started a fresh windows 7 (64 bit) install. But before installing onto samsung 850 evo I formatted and deleted the partition. Now it says unallocated space and i cannot press New to create a new partition to install windows. Did I wreck my new ssd??

Cheers

 

[Peter Martin]

How are you trying to install windows what device are you booting from?

Boot from USB or windows DVD and reinstall it it will create partitions for you

 

[geofelt]

Your ssd is fine, a clean windows 7 install will give you the option to format the ssd as necessary.
But, there may be a previous issue if your motherboard is of a newer gen with usb3.0 ports.
Windows 7 does not have the drivers for usb3.0.
If your windows 7 media is on a dvd device that is usb attached, you will not get far.
If your dvd reader is a sata attached device, you are ok.

 

[gensi92]

How are you trying to install windows what device are you booting from?

Boot from USB or windows DVD and reinstall it it will create partitions for you

I'm booting from a CD Drive. But while in the windows 7 installation to pick which disk to install windows on the Next button is grayed out so I cannot continue with the installation.

 

[gensi92]

Your ssd is fine, a clean windows 7 install will give you the option to format the ssd as necessary.
But, there may be a previous issue if your motherboard is of a newer gen with usb3.0 ports.
Windows 7 does not have the drivers for usb3.0.
If your windows 7 media is on a dvd device that is usb attached, you will not get far.
If your dvd reader is a sata attached device, you are ok.

Thanks for the reply. Yes the windows 7 boot is on a cd drive which is usb attached to a usb 2.0 port. I ran into problems before with my keyboard and mouse not working during windows 7 installation but I've managed to fixed that by plugging in a 2nd cd drive directly into the sata ports with my mobo driver cd. It's good to know my SSD is fine but with my partition deleted I cannot continue with the win 7 installation as the Next button is grayed out. Any ideas to fix this problem?

 

[geofelt]

Put your windows install media in the sata attached dvd and boot from that.
No need for drivers.
After the windows install, you can use your motherboard driver cd to install the usb drivers and lan drivers.

When you boot the install media, there should be an option for a clean install and to delete/reformat the device.

 

[gensi92]

Put your windows install media in the sata attached dvd and boot from that.
No need for drivers.
After the windows install, you can use your motherboard driver cd to install the usb drivers and lan drivers.

When you boot the install media, there should be an option for a clean install and to delete/reformat the device.

When I put my windows install media into the sata attached and boot from it the keyboard and mouse does not work during the language select screen (motherboard is the MSI B350M mortar which has two usb 2.0 ports).

I've tried plugging my keyboard and mouse into both usb 2.0 and 3.0 but they still don't work. The only configuration that brought me the farthest is when I put my MSI mobo driver cd into the sata attached dvd and my windows install media into the usb attached dvd. Booting from the usb attached dvd brings me to the windows installation language screen where my keyboard works. I continue up until where I pick which storage disk to install; I've unplugged all hdds and ssds except the one ssd I want to install windows on (which happens to be the ssd I formatted during my windows 7 fresh install).

And this is where I'm stuck at, I have two partitions where one is 100 mb (reserved space) and another 465gb of unallocated space. It does not let me install windows 7 onto the unallocated space. Pressing New does not create a new partition and I get an error message that says "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks."

Sorry for the long message and hoping for a reply. Is my best bet just to purchase Windows 10?

UPDATE: I browsed youtube for a fix and I can now install windows 7 but haven't started yet.
Reason is because I cleaned and converted the SSD to GPT through pressing SHIFT F10 while in windows installation. Now when I'm asked where I'd like to install windows I only have one partitition to choose from which is Disk 0 Unallocated Space. I'm a bit worried as before there were two partition; one reserved space and the other unallocated space. I have read that the reserved space is quite important as it has some boot files but now that is gone I'm worried about just blindly installing Windows 7.

 

[geofelt]

I think ryzen is less tolerant of windows 7 than intel.
AM4 was not around when windows 7 install media was built so it is not surprising that there might be a missing usb driver.
Probably best to go to windows 10.
I am not much of a fan of windows 10, but the free app called windows classic shell will make it look much like windows 7.