Windows 11 is not installing

[Davey K]

I have been dealing with issues installing Windows 11 on my little brother’s custom built PC. He has a Aorus X870 Elite Wi-Fi 7 motherboard with the latest BIOS version which is F8e, I cleared the SSD with a tool called Parted Magic, and yet it still blue screens and won’t let me install Windows 11. Could I get some advice on what to do? I’m grabbing with straws with how irritating his computer is not letting me play ball.

[GuiltySpark_]

41 minutes ago, Davey K said:

I cleared the SSD with a tool called Parted Magic

So the install process should take care of this on its own. 

 

Can you explain what happens when you:

 

Boot to the install USB, select the SSD (that should only have a single partition labeled Unallocated Space) and click Next? Thats all you typically need to do on modern, new hardware. Not sure what you may or may not have done with Parted Magic that might be contributing to your problems. 

 

A picture of the drive selection screen would be helpful.

[Davey K]

8 minutes ago, GuiltySpark_ said:

So the install process should take care of this on its own. 

 

Can you explain what happens when you:

 

Boot to the install USB, select the SSD (that should only have a single partition labeled Unallocated Space) and click Next? Thats all you typically need to do on modern, new hardware. Not sure what you may or may not have done with Parted Magic that might be contributing to your problems. 

 

A picture of the drive selection screen would be helpful.

I basically formatted the SSD within Parted Magic, formatted it with ntfs and created one primary partition on it. Yet whenever I try to boot up the Windows 11 installer it comes up with errors as shown in the image.

 

Which I’m scratching my head because I had an install of Windows 10 on my little brother’s computer before I formatted the SSD, which the computer had worked fine but it still randomly blue screened.

[BiotechBen]

10 minutes ago, Davey K said:

I basically formatted the SSD within Parted Magic, formatted it with ntfs and created one primary partition on it. Yet whenever I try to boot up the Windows 11 installer it comes up with errors as shown in the image.

 

Which I’m scratching my head because I had an install of Windows 10 on my little brother’s computer before I formatted the SSD, which the computer had worked fine but it still randomly blue screened.

Looks like it "wiped" the drive instead of doing a full format, because there's still remnants of something on it. Secure erase should fix it.

The installer will give you the option to crate a boot partition as it goes through the install process.

[Davey K]

19 minutes ago, BiotechBen said:

Secure erase should fix it.

Do you know how to do a Secure Erase? Is it something I could do in Parted Magic or through other means?

[leclod]

As others have written before, you don't need to format, partition before, the install process should take care of this on its own.

During installation, when selecting the location, you erase (all) the current partition(s) and click on install without selecting any partition.

Edited October 23, 2025 by leclod

[ieleja]

5 hours ago, Davey K said:

whenever I try to boot up the Windows 11 installer it comes up with errors as shown in the image

don't think, that is any related to your SSD

if you can, return to Windows 10, get these BSODs and try to debug they to stable Windows 10, then upgrade to 25H2

[leclod]

12 minutes ago, ieleja said:

if you can, return to Windows 10, get these BSODs and try to debug they to stable Windows 10, then upgrade to 25H2

To me this doesn't make any sense.

Obviously he cannot return to the previous W10.

Installing a new W10 is similar to installing W11 and it will (probably) fail for the same reason.

We didn't say the issue is any related to the SSD (hardware), (yet)

Edited October 23, 2025 by leclod

[Donut417]

7 hours ago, Davey K said:

I basically formatted the SSD within Parted Magic, formatted it with ntfs and created one primary partition on it.

Windows has its own built in tools, I wouldn't not advise using any 3rd party tools. What I would do is download a Live CD version of Linux, it will run off a flash drive. Use that to delete any partions on the drive. Then try installing Windows again, but this time use the built in tool. 

[paddy-stone]

16 minutes ago, Donut417 said:

Windows has its own built in tools, I wouldn't not advise using any 3rd party tools. What I would do is download a Live CD version of Linux, it will run off a flash drive. Use that to delete any partions on the drive. Then try installing Windows again, but this time use the built in tool. 

^This is my preferred method

 

I must admit though, that sometimes I have had issues with windows installation in the past that made no logical  sense... in the end I downloaded a fresh iso and it fixed the problem.

[BiotechBen]

10 hours ago, Davey K said:

Do you know how to do a Secure Erase? Is it something I could do in Parted Magic or through other means?

In your BIOS, usually under security or similar, there should be a secure erase option. It'll likely take a bit depending on the size, usually they run as "write all 1's, then write all 0's" which will make any thing that may have been on that drive completely gone. 

(Disclaimer: a single cycle is usually enough for anyone but government, who may do anywhere from 5 to 100 cycles depending on level of security paranoia and then may also shred it as well)

[Davey K]

So just want to ask a real question regarding my little brother’s motherboard, do you fellas think his Aorus X870 Elite might have some sort of corruption issue perhaps?

 

Or could there be another potential issue with the CPU? Which is a AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D?

[Donut417]

54 minutes ago, Davey K said:

So just want to ask a real question regarding my little brother’s motherboard, do you fellas think his Aorus X870 Elite might have some sort of corruption issue perhaps?

 

Or could there be another potential issue with the CPU? Which is a AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D?

No I think the problem is you used a 3rd party partitioning tool. Windows 11 requires specific configuration to be installed. TPM, Secure boot, and the drive be GPT vs MBR. If anything is off it will have issues, assuming you’re not doing a bypass method. 
 

You can check the hardware by doing as I stated and using a live CD version of Linux. If that runs then the hardware is good. 

[Davey K]

11 minutes ago, Donut417 said:

No I think the problem is you used a 3rd party partitioning tool. Windows 11 requires specific configuration to be installed. TPM, Secure boot, and the drive be GPT vs MBR. If anything is off it will have issues, assuming you’re not doing a bypass method. 
 

You can check the hardware by doing as I stated and using a live CD version of Linux. If that runs then the hardware is good. 

Parted Magic I think is a form of Linux, so I’ll try and format the SSD as gpt or mbr. Fingers crossed it will fix the constant BSOD issues.

[Donut417]

36 minutes ago, Davey K said:

Parted Magic I think is a form of Linux,

Its not. It's a tool used for partioning drives. The reason you want a version of Linux like Ubuntu as it's a full desktop OS, in reality I can be a replacement for Windows. BUT it can run off a flash drive and you dont have to install it to try it. 
I double checked the error you posted, it does indicate there could be a driver issue or hardware fault. By booting in to Linux you can test your hardware. If Linux runs fine, then Id use the built in partioning tools in Linux to delete and partions on the drive. 

 

If it doesnt work, then you have a hardware fault or driver issue during install, we would have to track down the hardware causing the issue. 

 

Then after you do the stuff with Linux try booting with the Windows install USB. If it fails again, id download either the media creation tool or download the .ISO and RUFUS to re do the USB. There is a possibility that the Windows installer is messed up in some way. Ive seen Windows do some fucked up shit over the years. If it works great, if not then we need to start more troubleshooting. I have seen it suggested that you should unplug anything not necessary to install Windows. That included extra USB devices and such any extra PCIe cards that are not needed. 

[Davey K]

31 minutes ago, Donut417 said:

Its not. It's a tool used for partioning drives. The reason you want a version of Linux like Ubuntu as it's a full desktop OS, in reality I can be a replacement for Windows. BUT it can run off a flash drive and you dont have to install it to try it. 
I double checked the error you posted, it does indicate there could be a driver issue or hardware fault. By booting in to Linux you can test your hardware. If Linux runs fine, then Id use the built in partioning tools in Linux to delete and partions on the drive. 

 

If it doesnt work, then you have a hardware fault or driver issue during install, we would have to track down the hardware causing the issue. 

 

Then after you do the stuff with Linux try booting with the Windows install USB. If it fails again, id download either the media creation tool or download the .ISO and RUFUS to re do the USB. There is a possibility that the Windows installer is messed up in some way. Ive seen Windows do some fucked up shit over the years. If it works great, if not then we need to start more troubleshooting. I have seen it suggested that you should unplug anything not necessary to install Windows. That included extra USB devices and such any extra PCIe cards that are not needed. 

I’ll take your advice, but I’ll try it Saturday because I have work irl tomorrow. I’ll buy a flash drive and create a bootable environment for Ubuntu, then I’ll try and boot it up to see if any issues arise using the Live CD.

 

i’ll report on any findings and I’ll post them on this thread, wish me luck on solving the Devil Box and it’s issues lmao.

[Davey K]

Alright I have an update now, but I think it may have some bad news. So my little brother’s motherboard has an error code read-out on it and when I tried to boot up Ubuntu it gave me error code 70.

 

After some quick research it indicates that it’s some kind of a CPU issue, so should I try reseating it or what? I’m kind of stumped on what to do here.