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[lcg]

kinetix63, on 17 June 2012 - 16:30, said:

Thanks guys - I appreciate the help here. We're making some progress! Turns out that Aergan was on the right track with this. I've done a diskpart and setup can at least now see the drive! However, we're now going through a whole "windows cannot be installed to this disk, the computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk" thing. I'm just trying a "clean all" in diskpart and hoping we can move forward from there.

Unfortunately, this old motherboard is an absolute pile of $*&# - you cannot specify what mode the disk runs on, and from what I can google it's suggesting that AHCI isn't supported anyhow, so it's running it in IDE mode. Hopefully we're getting there now. Any thoughts on the "Windows cannot be installed to this disk" message would be much appreciated though.

Really appreciate ALL of the thoughts and suggestions so far.

You might be able to install Windows to that drive anyway. The other day I was installing Windows 8 to a VHD and it gave that error, but I was able to ignore it and install Windows on it.

[1WayJonny]

at setup do diskpart (SHIFT+F10)

then try:

diskpart

list disk - is the drive formatted as GPT? diskpart will have a "*" in the list disk command

select disk "X"

clean

exit

exit


see if it pops up in the windows setup

[kinetix63]

arachnoid, on 17 June 2012 - 16:33, said:

Did you try deleting and remaking the disk partition in the windows set up?

I certainly did It was at that point that I get this error message now.

lcg, on 17 June 2012 - 16:37, said:

You might be able to install Windows to that drive anyway. The other day I was installing Windows 8 to a VHD and it gave that error, but I was able to ignore it and install Windows on it.

Hmmm, it would appear that's an improvement in Windows 8 over 7 - this darned thing just will not let you continue

1WayJonny, on 17 June 2012 - 16:40, said:

at setup do diskpart (SHIFT+F10)

then try.....

I've done that one before, which is what managed to get the drive recognised by Setup. Unfortunately, that's not getting around this "The hardware may not support booting from this disk" error. I've left a "clean all" running on it at the moment in the vague hope that might fix it up. I'll then try creating and flagging the partitions manually.

I think failing that, maybe I should attempt to install Ubuntu just to get SOME kind of O/S on the disk and booting, then attempt to re-format and install windows over the top of it.

[Michael Churma III]

Kinetix63 what size is the hard drive? Is this a 3TB drive? When you ran diskpart did you perform the clean command?

[kinetix63]

Believe it or not, it's actually only a 500GB drive, which is why I'm so confused it's giving me all this trouble!

However - we finally have success After a thorough clean all, a large dose of patience, and a reboot later and it is now installing! Thank you everyone!