"We couldn't create a partition or locate an existing one

[schmidtb26]

So I'm doing a fresh windows 10 install on a system I just built.
I have it in USB.

I get past the key and when's i go to choose the drive it says "we couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one. For more info see set up log files."

Now I tried to repair via command prompt and did disk clean and disk partition and all of that. Went back in and still getting the same error message.

This is a drive that i had running as a secondary in another windows 10 system. Before installing into this new build I reformatted the disk and then removed it from the old system and put it in the new build.

Why isn't it letting me install on the disk.

By the way it's a Sandisk II 960gb SDD

 

[USAFRet]

So I'm doing a fresh windows 10 install on a system I just built.
I have it in USB.

I get past the key and when's i go to choose the drive it says "we couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one. For more info see set up log files."

Now I tried to repair via command prompt and did disk clean and disk partition and all of that. Went back in and still getting the same error message.

This is a drive that i had running as a secondary in another windows 10 system. Before installing into this new build I reformatted the disk and then removed it from the old system and put it in the new build.

Why isn't it letting me install on the disk.

By the way it's a Sandisk II 960gb SDD

When it asks where, select Custom.
You should be presented with a list of all partitions on that drive.
Select each one and Delete.
Leaving one large space. Let Windows install to that.

 

[schmidtb26]

I can't select custom. I'm in windows setup, this ssd does not have any OS on it currently. It's a clean drive so I don't believe what you said is an option for me.

 

[schmidtb26]

What I ended up doing was to delete the partion
Hit New and let it do its thing
Then I chose the partition it created for the install and it went. Replying on the new machine right now!!!