Windows 10 installation help

[dtill13]

While trying to install Windows 10 on my newly built pc, windows will not install onto my hard drive. The error reads "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enable in the computer's BIOS menu." and neither I nor my friend can figure out how to fix this issue.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, dtill13 said:

While trying to install Windows 10 on my newly built pc, windows will not install onto my hard drive. The error reads "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enable in the computer's BIOS menu." and neither I nor my friend can figure out how to fix this issue.

do what it says. connect the disk to a different pc and delete all the partitions in disk manager (pc management)

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

For whatever reason, booting from a CD rather than using a USB solved this for me when I was reinstalling 7 on a friend's laptop.

[doomsriker]

First, make sure your drive is showing up in the bios, and if it is set it to boot priority number 1. If it is not showing up, this is a bad sign. Try using a different SATA connector (try all available until one works). Not all SATA connectors are created equal. Also, make sure sata power and data are securely pushed in all the way on both sides. You may need to reformat the drive on another computer, especially if it is a used drive. If all else fails you could be looking at a dead or defective drive. 

[GoodBytes]

1- Insert your motheboard disk

2- On the screen where you have that error message. Click on OK on the error message, than click on "Load Drivers"

3- Now Browse the motherboard disk content and look for the SATA (or PCI-E M.2 NVMe, depending on the drive type you have) .inf controller drivers file. Click on OK, and voila!

 

Basically your problem is that Windows setup can't see your SSD/HDD because it has failed to communicate with your SATA (or PCI-E M.2 NVMe) controller. This is usually the case when you have a special controller, or you have too new tech which Windows setup doesn't support natively, and it doesn't support the well defined standards. So you need to install the drivers for it at this stage.

 

*.inf file is a script file for Windows, which tells Windows how to install the driver. You need to pick it, over a nice exe file, because at this stage, Windows is obviously not installed, so it can't run exe files.

 

[dtill13]

I found out what the problem was, it was a bad sata cable, thanks for the help everyone