Trouble Installing Windows 10 on Hard Drive

[gaming109]

Hello, I'm having trouble installing windows 10 onto my hard drive. I have an asus motherboard and a Western Digital 1tb hdd. When I go to the screen to install windows, it says this. "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu." I've seen people have the same problem with windows 7, and they had to change their storage bios setting from RAID to AHCI mode, but mines set to AHCI by default. Please help me.

 

[The Paladin]

okay to help you trouble shoot this problem I have to ask a few questions and I will make a few suggestions afterwards, help me to help you.

1) please provide make and model of cpu, and motherboard, and WD hard drive Model.
2) what window version are you trying to install on your computer.

suggestion

Have you tried changing from ACHI to IDE ?

 

[ehmkec]

If the is something like 'WHQL Support' in your UEFI(BIOS) settings make sure it is enabled. And make sure you understand the difference between legacy BIOS and UEFI.

 

[gaming109]

okay to help you trouble shoot this problem I have to ask a few questions and I will make a few suggestions afterwards, help me to help you.

1) please provide make and model of cpu, and motherboard, and WD hard drive Model.
2) what window version are you trying to install on your computer.

suggestion

Have you tried changing from ACHI to IDE ?

 

[gaming109]

okay to help you trouble shoot this problem I have to ask a few questions and I will make a few suggestions afterwards, help me to help you.

1) please provide make and model of cpu, and motherboard, and WD hard drive Model.
2) what window version are you trying to install on your computer.

suggestion

Have you tried changing from ACHI to IDE ?

Its a Intel i3 7100, motherboard is a ASUS Prime B250m a, and the hard drive is WD Blue. I can't find IDE in my bios settings.

 

[gaming109]

If the is something like 'WHQL Support' in your UEFI(BIOS) settings make sure it is enabled. And make sure you understand the difference between legacy BIOS and UEFI.

I'm not sure where to find WHQL Support in my bios.

 

[The Paladin]

okay ACHI should be the selection used for WD Blue Sata drive, you do have it connected with Sata/power or you would not have a response.
reboot in bios, does it identify the hard drive hardware properly ?

is this hard drive a used hard drive ? was is running Linux on it before ?

 

[gaming109]

okay ACHI should be the selection used for WD Blue Sata drive, you do have it connected with Sata/power or you would not have a response.
reboot in bios, does it identify the hard drive hardware properly ?

is this hard drive a used hard drive ? was is running Linux on it before ?

It is connected to sata power and it was new and from what i can tell, it indentify's the hardware properly

 

[The Paladin]

can you tell if it is spinning ?

 

[gaming109]

can you tell if it is spinning ?

My WD drive is weird. It's the size of an ssd and it has no spinning thing. So should I look for a different hard drive? Here's the link to the ebay page I bought it from. https://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Western-Digital-WD10JPVT-1TB-8MB-Cache-5400RPM-SATA-3Gb-s-2-5-Hard-Drive/122772447981?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
UPDATE: I think I might need to buy a different hard drive, do you think I should? Please respond.

 

[The Paladin]

if that is your ebay listing, they have an RMA process to follow if you want to get it tested with WD support and prove it is bad so they can refund/exchange for another drive.

the size is simply a WD 1tb 5400 2.5" for laptops but should work in a desktop anyways.

PS: for that price you could of had a Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive for 10$ less: https://pcpartpicker.com/product/MwW9TW/western-digital-internal-hard-drive-wd10ezex

 

[gaming109]

if that is your ebay listing, they have an RMA process to follow if you want to get it tested with WD support and prove it is bad so they can refund/exchange for another drive.

the size is simply a WD 1tb 5400 2.5" for laptops but should work in a desktop anyways.

PS: for that price you could of had a Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive for 10$ less: https://pcpartpicker.com/product/MwW9TW/western-digital-internal-hard-drive-wd10ezex

I was able to return it and I bought a WD Caviar Blue 1tb 3.5 drive. I think it was a problem with the hard drive itself, so if I have the same problem with the new, I'll have to come back.

 

[gaming109]

if that is your ebay listing, they have an RMA process to follow if you want to get it tested with WD support and prove it is bad so they can refund/exchange for another drive.

the size is simply a WD 1tb 5400 2.5" for laptops but should work in a desktop anyways.

PS: for that price you could of had a Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive for 10$ less: https://pcpartpicker.com/product/MwW9TW/western-digital-internal-hard-drive-wd10ezex