New built pc, cant format hardrive

[sfighters77]

While trying to install Windows on my hardrive, i first thought the issue was it couldn't detect the hard drive or somthing, iv checked the bios and it doesn't list it as plugged in, it only details my CD-drive.
But when I go to install Windows it shows up as "Drive 0 unallocated space". And I cant format it because its greyed out and I tried doing it with the command prompt but when I try to create partition primary, it says "Diskpart has encountered an error: the system cannot find the file specified. See the system event log for more information"

Please help

My build: https://pcpartpicker.com/guide/X3nTwP/entry-level-amd-gaming-build

 

[CountMike]

Check if SATA is in AHCI mode. This https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/gparted_live.html can make you self booting USB from which you can check partitions on that disk. Make sure there's only one partition formatted to Fat32.

 

[sfighters77]

Check if SATA is in AHCI mode. This https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/gparted_live.html can make you self booting USB from which you can check partitions on that disk. Make sure there's only one partition formatted to Fat32.

Followed your directions and even gparted cant detect a hard drive on my pc.

 

[failboat]

If the disk was used previously make sure to run the program as admin/root in order to remove any partitions it had.
You need root access to remove/see another users data.

use diskpart in windows command prompt, type whoami to check if your admin/root. once it's raw you should be able to format it.

 

[sfighters77]

If the disk was used previously make sure to run the program as admin/root in order to remove any partitions it had.
You need root access to remove/see another users data.

use diskpart in windows command prompt, type whoami to check if your admin/root. once it's raw you should be able to format it.

Its a new pc and hard drive, I don't have windows installed or anything. But thanks tho.

 

[CountMike]

I'm afraid that there's something wrong with that drive, Gparted should have displayed it even if it's in raw format or any other one.