Windows is unable to install to this location. Error 0x80004005

[Lemonatwe47]

So I'm trying to install Windows 7 SP1 onto my computer which currently has no OS installed on it already. The hard drive is an empty 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black. I actually had to clear the disk using Diskpart as it wasn't formatting in the windows Installation window.

This hard drive used to just Store everything on it. My old C drive was an SSD which broke and is now nothing more than a plastic box. So I copied everything from the WD hard drive onto an external hard drive and was going to use that as my new C drive. It is the only hard drive in the computer.

When I click "Next" to install windows onto it it comes back with the error in the title word for word.

How do I get around this? Is there something I'm doing wrong? I really need to Install Windows on that hard drive.

 

[hang-the-9]

You're trying to install Windows on an external drive? Or is that drive internal and you just copied the files to an external?

When you start the Windows 7 setup, go to drive options, does it show you a partition or blank space there? If you see something, select it and either delete the partition and create a new one, or create one. Then run the setup.