Install won't work??

[Freshpinpop]

Hey guys just bought a western digital caviar blue 1tb 7200rpm internal drive and while trying to clean install windows 10 onto it I'm getting an error message saying. "windows cannot be installed to this disk. this computer's hardware may not support booting this disk."

I read a little, and they say the BIOS should be set on ACHI rather IDE - and mine is already set on ACHI. What else can I do?
Also when I try and create a new partition on the drive it says it can't create a new one or locate an existing one.

 

[SkyNetRising]

The drive is partitioned in the way, that prevents installing windows onto it.
Clean the drive before installing windows.
Boot from windows installation media, go to command prompt and execute.

• Diskpart
  list disk
  select disk X (X - number of your disk from previous command, should be 0 )
  clean

After that relaunch installation.

 

[Freshpinpop]

Followed those steps however once I reloaded the install and got to selecting a drive again it's still giving me the same error?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Are you installing in UEFI mode or legacy/CSM mode?
You may need to create partitions for installing windows manually.

For UEFI (GPT partition format):

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/commercialize/manufacture/desktop/configure-uefigpt-based-hard-drive-partitions

For legacy/csm (MBR partition format):

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825146.aspx

 

[Freshpinpop]

Pretty sure uefi, looked through the link you gave me but I'm not sure what section I'm looking for? I've never ran into this issue before so not very well informed about how to resolve it without step by steps , sorry if it's an inconvenience

 

[SkyNetRising]

Diskpart script for creating partitions for UEFI/GPT system:

Spoiler

rem == CreatePartitions-UEFI.txt ==
rem == These commands are used with DiskPart to
rem create four partitions
rem for a UEFI/GPT-based PC.
rem Adjust the partition sizes to fill the drive
rem as necessary. ==
select disk 0
clean
convert gpt
rem == 1. System partition =========================
create partition efi size=100
rem ** NOTE: For Advanced Format 4Kn drives,
rem change this value to size = 260 **
format quick fs=fat32 label="System"
assign letter="S"
rem == 2. Microsoft Reserved (MSR) partition =======
create partition msr size=16
rem == 3. Windows partition ========================
rem == a. Create the Windows partition ==========
create partition primary
rem == b. Create space for the recovery tools ===
shrink minimum=500
rem ** NOTE: Update this size to match the
rem size of the recovery tools
rem (winre.wim) plus free space **
rem == c. Prepare the Windows partition =========
format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows"
assign letter="W"
rem === 4. Recovery tools partition ================
create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs label="Recovery tools"
assign letter="R"
set id="de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac"
gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001
list volume
exit

 

[Freshpinpop]

Jesus..so, I just select my disk and type all that or?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Lines starting with "rem" are just comments.
Suggest executing commands one by one.
Also learn, what each command does before executing it.
"clean" command for example is data destructive. If you execute it wrong, you may loose data.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770877(v=ws.11).aspx

 

[Freshpinpop]

Ok I'll look into all of that tomorrow, one more thing I've been told that reformatting it may help, could you tell me how to that through the installation cmd window? Or is that what I did when I cleaned it?

 

[Freshpinpop]

Ok I have gone through the steps, and once I have gone to create the partition primary it has given me an error "data error (cyclic redundancy check). See system event log for more information

 

[Freshpinpop]

Just an update I have tried 1 last time to launch with uefi and this time I have gotten to the same stage ( choosing where to install) however this time the previous error is gone and I now have ( we couldn't install windows in the location you chose
( drive 0 unallocated space) please check your media drive. Anyone have any ideas?