Installing Windows 10 on a new computer build

[Dweagar]

I recently rebuilt an old machine with a new MSI Tomahawk motherboard, AMD Ryzen 7 chip, Nvidia GTX 930, ram, etc...

Purchased a WD Blue 4TB drive to put into it, purchasing a copy of Win 10 64-bit. I ran through the installation and got to the point where it asks where I want to install Windows.

At this point it says:

Name Total Size Free Space Type
Drive 0 Unallocated Space 0.0MB 0.0MB

Several options listed below this area as to what to do with the drive, including refresh, install drivers, new, etc.. (including an error)

Selecting "new" yields either an error saying that the minimum size must be at most 0mb. Selecting the "error" at the bottom of the screen says that Windows cannot be installed on this drive... clicking on that, it says that "The Partition is too small. Make the size of this partition at least 9271MB or select another partition".

At this point.. I am stuck. I cant create another partition, I cant use the current partition (if it exists) and I cant format the drive because its not allowing that. I cant do anything with the "new" option beacuse that also doesnt allow me to set the size to anything.

I have tried to use Diskpart to format or partition, but it says that the disk is sized to 0.

Any ideas?

 

[Colif]

Do you have another PC you can put hdd into and see if it reveals any space? there are tools you can use to test drive out

western Digital - https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=2

Sounds like a bad hdd

 

[Dweagar]

unfortunately, I do not have another machine to put the drive in, my other machines are laptops.

Its a brand new WD Blue 3.5" 4TB drive that I just got today.

This is the drive:
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-desktop-everyday-4tb-internal-sata-hard-drive-for-desktops/9026007.p?skuId=9026007

 

[Colif]

the wd link i gave is a bootable test, make it on a laptop and run it on hdd.

It shouldn't have any effect but check in bios and see what boot method its using. Since its 64bit it should be using UEFI. It shouldn't make much difference, I was just thinking MBR wouldn't see half that drive since its so big, but it should see way more than 0mb.

A new drive is blank, so no partitions. Its seeing 0 space at all. Running WD test at least tell you if it works.

 

[smorizio]

boot from the usb stick again and using diskpart tools see how the drive is formated. if it not formated right the disk wont be seen right for windows to install it. also download amd chipset drivers from amd for your mb. whe nthe windows installer starts hit f6 do a custom installer for the sata inf chipset drivers.