I should add - the disk was not allocated BEFORE the install attempt. The information from diskpart came from AFTER I got the error.
So the installer is partitioning the disk, but failing to install windows.
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Hi!
I'm having a common issue and I've tried all of the fixes I've found online. I still have the issue
I have two disks - the USB removable memory stick which contains the installer ISO image, and an M.2 Samsung 500GB drive. I'm doing a fresh install of windows 10 and I'm encountering an error during the installation.
When I reach the 'Where do you want to install Windows' dialog box in the installer, I see Drive 0, with 465GB of unallocated space. When I select this disk and click install I get the following error:
"Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation. To install Windows, restart the installation"
My unallocated disk space looks like this from diskpart:
>diskpart
> list disk
DISK ### Status Size Free Dyn GPT
Disk 0 Online 465GB 0B * <----samsung m.2 500GB drive
Disk 1 Online 28GB 0B * <----usb running windows installer
> list volume
Volume #### LTR Label FS Type Size Status Info
--------------- ----- ------- --- ----- ----- ------- -----
Volume 0 C Recovery NTFS Partition 529MB Healthy
Volume 1 F NTFS Partition 465GB Healthy
Volume 2 E FAT32 Partition 100MB Healthy Hidden
Volume 3 D WIN10 FAT32 Removable 28GB Healthy
>select disk 0
>list partition
Partition ### Type Size Offset
-------------- ---- ----- ------
Partition 1 Recovery 529MB 1024KB
Partition 2 System 100MB 530MB
Partition 3 Reserved 16MB 630MB
Partition 4 Primary 465GB 646MB
The only thing that l see that looks out of sorts is that volume 0, Recovery, gets drive letter C. Volume 1 is the one I expected to get drive letter C.
Has anyone else seen an issue like this before? Am I barking up the wrong tree with the drive letter, or is something else going on?
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I should add - the disk was not allocated BEFORE the install attempt. The information from diskpart came from AFTER I got the error.
So the installer is partitioning the disk, but failing to install windows.
Hi, RichardKaye1
My name is Aracely, I am an Independent Advisor. I would love to help you today.
I recommend that you remove all partitions from the Windows installer and recreate them
Let me know if the information has been helpful in solving your problem.
Alas,
I've tried that. Here are the steps I've tried:
1) Using the installer, delete all partitions on the disk before starting the install. Then select the unallocated space on the disk and let the installer partition the disk.
2) Using diskpart, clean the drive of all partitions and do the same thing
Both of those attempts failed with the error above.
When I delete all of the partitions using the installer, and try to recreate them by hand, the installer 'helps' me. I create the first partition - the big one - and then the installer automatically creates recovery, system etc. etc. the other partitions. The install then fails.
Should the recovery partition be in position 1?
Am I doing something wrong?
After deleting the partition, you have to format it
Hi!
I'm having a common issue and I've tried all of the fixes I've found online. I still have the issue
I have two disks - the USB removable memory stick which contains the installer ISO image, and an M.2 Samsung 500GB drive. I'm doing a fresh install of windows 10 and I'm encountering an error during the installation.
When I reach the 'Where do you want to install Windows' dialog box in the installer, I see Drive 0, with 465GB of unallocated space. When I select this disk and click install I get the following error:
"Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation. To install Windows, restart the installation"
My unallocated disk space looks like this from diskpart:
>diskpart
> list disk
DISK ### Status Size Free Dyn GPT
Disk 0 Online 465GB 0B * <----samsung m.2 500GB drive
Disk 1 Online 28GB 0B * <----usb running windows installer
> list volume
Volume #### LTR Label FS Type Size Status Info
--------------- ----- ------- --- ----- ----- ------- -----
Volume 0 C Recovery NTFS Partition 529MB Healthy
Volume 1 F NTFS Partition 465GB Healthy
Volume 2 E FAT32 Partition 100MB Healthy Hidden
Volume 3 D WIN10 FAT32 Removable 28GB Healthy
>select disk 0
>list partition
Partition ### Type Size Offset
-------------- ---- ----- ------
Partition 1 Recovery 529MB 1024KB
Partition 2 System 100MB 530MB
Partition 3 Reserved 16MB 630MB
Partition 4 Primary 465GB 646MB
The only thing that l see that looks out of sorts is that volume 0, Recovery, gets drive letter C. Volume 1 is the one I expected to get drive letter C.
Has anyone else seen an issue like this before? Am I barking up the wrong tree with the drive letter, or is something else going on?
I was reinstalling windows 10 and my installation cd exploded in my drive im plying against the devil trying to recover this .I have a pc with a split windows 7 personality.i have been 4 days deleting trying recovery and still cant recover .any suggestions I will try.