My new build is on a gigabyte H97 D3H. I have new HDD and, temporarily, a couple of old ones. I also have a new Samsung 840 evo SSD that I want to install W7 64 on.
I'm having problems, so just in case, I disconnected the old HDD that had previously been used for windows.
The installation fails at the point where I select the SSD as the drive I want to install to.
Following advice given to another post on TH, I used diskpart to convert the SSD to MBR. That led to a message saying windows can only install to a GPT disk from an EFI system, so I went back to diskpart and converted the SSD back to GPT.
Now I am back to square one. The error message is back to "Setup was unable to create a new system partition, or locate an existing one"
I have also tried the New and Format options on this screen.
The only option I haven't tried is load driver.
I am on the outer edge of my very limited knowledge here and I would be grateful for any help.
Thanks
I'm having problems, so just in case, I disconnected the old HDD that had previously been used for windows.
The installation fails at the point where I select the SSD as the drive I want to install to.
Following advice given to another post on TH, I used diskpart to convert the SSD to MBR. That led to a message saying windows can only install to a GPT disk from an EFI system, so I went back to diskpart and converted the SSD back to GPT.
Now I am back to square one. The error message is back to "Setup was unable to create a new system partition, or locate an existing one"
I have also tried the New and Format options on this screen.
The only option I haven't tried is load driver.
I am on the outer edge of my very limited knowledge here and I would be grateful for any help.
Thanks