What worked for me was just going until the "clean" part, then after cleaning the SSD, I typed "convert gpt". Then "exit", and "exit" again. Now I restarted and tried to install Windows again, and it worked like a charm.

You forgot to mention that ater creating new partition and copying files you must remove the USB drive and reboot into newly created partition and install windows from it.

I was pulling my hair out trying to install windows all night till six in the morning. I wish I'd found this video earlier. You are a computer god. I may be delirious from lack of sleep :).

3 years on and you are still helping people, this worked perfectly and was really easy to follow. Many, many thanks for taking the time to put this together!

I don’t usually leave comments, but I can’t thank you enough for this!! Been trying to install windows 11 for 3 hours. I had gone through just about every “solution” I could find. I was about to give up, then found your video!! Thanks so much!!

Guys, you need to remove the USB drive and restart your computer for it to work...you are now installing from the disk partition, not the USB device.

Dude. I don't really comment on tutorials but your video saved my day.

Even though this didn't entirely help me, I must say I couldn't do it without it so kudos to you man! Here's a description of what I had to do to successfully install Windows 10 on a Thinkpad E15 Gen2 (NVMe SSD) (the commands are wrapped in quotes): 1. Create a bootable USB with Windows 10 2. Launch the installer using the USB 2.0 (don’t ask why, it might work for you on 3.0+ but if not try 2.0) 3. Open Command Prompt (Shift + F10) 4. Start diskpart: "diskpart" 5. List disk: "list disk" 6. Select the disk you’d want the Windows to be installed on: "select disk 0" 7. Clean the disk (ATTENTION: this will delete all the data on the disk, make sure you have a backup of it somewhere): "clean" 8. Convert the disk to GPT. This is the new standard that replaces MBR in all new systems (Thanks to @Indigo Wyvern for this): "convert gpt" 9. Create a new primary partition and set its size (depending on your needs): "create partition primary size=50000" 10. Format the newly created partition to NTFS: "format fs=ntfs" 11. Assign a default letter to the newly created partition: "assign" 12. List all current volumes you have. At least two should be present, one being your drive in your computer and the other one the USB flash drive from where the Windows is about to be installed. Remember the letters assigned to both these drives: "list volume" 13. Exit diskpart: "exit" 14. Run the following commands to fix MBR: "bootrec /FixMbr" "bootrec /FixBoot" "bootrec /RebuildBcd" 15. Change the directory to the USB flash drive (remember the letter associated to the USB flash drive from step 12.): "cd d:" 16. Copy the install files from the USB flash drive to the drive in your computer: "xcopy d: c:/e/h/k" 17. The copying might take a while so please be patient. As soon as it’s done exit the command prompt: "exit" 18. Restart the computer. 19. The installer will launch again and you can now select the previously created partition and proceed with the installation. 20. NOTE: The installation should work now BUT in order to avoid unexpected errors during installation remove the USB flash drive from your computer. 21. The installation should finish properly and the initial Windows setup should show up.

WTF!!!! YOU NEED A DONATE FOR THIS TUTORIAL!!! I installed Linux and its system corrupted my hard drive and I couldn't install Windows again, but this tutorial saved my day!! Thanks ❤

Yes work. Jadi setelah setingan selesai. Lalu flashdisk dicabut komputer restart lalu masuk bios dan booting dengan hardisk (yg tempat dicopi filenya yg tadi). Install windows sampe selesai.

Thank you very much. This worked for me with the following customization: 1. Right after the command *Clean* , enter command: *Convert GPT* (my Dell is 64 bit only) 2. After the *xcopy* command, close the Command Prompt to go back to the installation window. Exit everything to restart the computer. Remove the boot USB before the computer start to make sure that the computer will boot from the hard drive, not the USB. 3. Here is my customization. In my case, when the installation came back, the error message " _We Couldn’t Create A New Partition Or Locate An Existing One was still there_ ". So, I *deleted the partitions from within the installation interface* (not the Command Prompt). Then, I *plugged the boot USB back in* and it worked. This means that Windows setup first booted from the hard drive but then the hard drive needed to be cleaned up (unallocated) and used the installation files from the boot USB to continue the installation. Hope this helps.

I'm a little tech savvy so I figured it had to do with using a SSD I had used it as external storage before. I didn't know you could open up CMD from Windows install. Thanks dude! FYI for anyone who's installing W10, stop after "CLEAN" since all you need to do is wipe/format the drive. The install software should have done it but it doesn't succeed apparently so do this instead.

People like you makes the internet a resourceful place.

this worked when no one else did and I could be more thankful Its 1:30 in the morning... I have work tomorrow...

This works like a charm but quite out date. For more details, I created bootable SSD (not USB as usual) via MACOS. And my setup is TUF x570 + 3600X + NVMe. I can manage to boot to setup page (disable secure boot, fastboot, wifi, enable CSM), but always has a lot of errors. After some search, I known the reason is windows can not install when you have multiples storage devices (I have 2, once is SSD for install windows, and one is NVMe). So what I need to do is copy all file from SSD to NVMe following this videos, and remember to `convert GPT` after the first `clean` command, and `create partition primary size=9000` because 5000MB is not enough for today windows installation. After copying, IMPORTANT thing to do is unplug the SSD. Only keep 1 storage device on mainboard. If anyone has same problem, just leave reply here.

This actually worked! I spent ~3 hours trying to find fix. I'm so grateful right now, you have no idea. Thank you, thank you, thank you...

Word of mind: don't forget to edit your boot priority in UEFI/BIOS so the Windows Setup can detect your new partition properly! I just ran into this problem and I got frustrated. I saved the boot prio this way: 1st option = your install device, e.g. a usb drive 2nd option = the new partition. It may happen that you cannot select the harddrive you partitioned, in my case because I run 2 other drives. Look up the harddrive with your new partition in the priority order, then disable everything else above it until it's in 2nd position. If I'd known how to do this earlier, I wouldn't have lost hours upon this problem. I hope this will help you

6yrs later your still helping people

Thanks perfect instructions except for the end I had to figure out but you got me that far at least. In case anyone wants to know, take the disk out and reboot and then install.

"DiskPart has encountered an error: "A device which does not exist was specified".

Worked for me with some tweaking. I went through a few different steps because I was doing an install on a UEFI system. Before opening the command prompt, I had the installer create the necessary partitions, but leave about 10GB unpartitioned. I then used that space and made the partition with diskpart, copied the installer contents, then closed the installer and removed the thumbstick I was installing from. Once I started installation again (no reboot!) all worked perfectly. My method works with the 1809 update, didn't try with anything newer.

This worked like a charm! God forbid a Microsoft tool works as intended lol, but glad there are always workarounds and people who know share them.

5 Years later you are still helping people.

Solution: If you have multiple drives, then unplug all of them, plug only one drive where you want to install windows

Don't forget to remove the flash drive after you finish working on the command prompt and start installing windows again. (at minute 3:00 ) in this video. Thanks buddy, worked perfectly.

This seems to no longer work for a clean install of Win10 1903. All the steps followed, but now when you get the last step and try install on the remaining free space, it won't allow it because the disk has been setup as an MBR partition table, and you can't convert to GPT because of what it sees as as "CDROM" partition (the partition with installation files)

Thanks for saving me a headache. Great video! Make sure after you copy the installation files to the new drive you remove all other drives and media. Boot to the newly formatted drive and run the utility. Automatic from there.

It worked for me in 2024. I had to exit and restart my system, then remove my flash drive after I exited the cmd. That's how it worked. Thanks for the great work. I love you.

This is great, thank you! One comment for anyone where its still not working - I got tripped up on the size of the partition, a lot of modern installers exceed 5gb, and the xcopy fails silently if there isnt enough space on the partition. Its worth making sure your partition exceeds the size of the files on your boot drive!

Now it says: Windows can't be installed on this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks.

Thanks sooo much really appreciate it ! I was installing a m2 drive and could not get windows on it. I had to add one step converting to gpt but this was very helpful thanks again

Hey for anybody having the issue still occurring just disconnect all your hard drives except the one you’re installing windows on. Worked for me countless times

It worked. Thank you so much! I encountered some problem when upgrading to W11 so I thought I had to downgrade to W10 again, but that gave me a headache because of this error so this saved me from spending money on something that can be done this easily. I'm your new subscriber now. 😌

Side note for anyone having problems with their disk not being GPT try "convert gpt" after the "clean" this will resolve this

before anyof this, unplug all other drive, and try to use usb-sata connecter to save some file before reinstall the drive. clean = its gone.

Worked great! I only needed to perform the following commands: diskpart list disk select disk 0 clean

Some hero don't talk, they create content and help those who "Couldn't locate a partition". Thankyouuuuuu

Windows 11 requires gpt format so if you are installing windows 11 please stop after clean and type convert gpt and then you will be able to install. The top most comment on this video explains this. If you are installing windows 10 or lower keep following the steps

After typing “create partition primary size=5000” I got “diskpart has encountered an error: the request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. See the system event log for more information.” Can you help please

I just wanted to thank you! Two days gone with this issue. Also Platoon Goon's advice to "convert GPT" after clean step was the piece of the puzzle

It all worked but how can increase the 5000 because the installation media is about 12000 and when I enter that it says an encountered error because of an I/O device error

July 2024 and still working. Thanks and terimakasih 😂

At 1:12 mine says "virtual disk service error: the file system is incompatible." Edit: I kept following what he was doing after I typed in "xcopy d: c:/e/h/k" it now says "Invalid drive specification 0 Files copied"

Great job and information. We solved this problem, especially on systems with old bios, with your method. Appreciate it!

Hi guys, For my problem, even I have tried many ways but it is still not working. Below are 2 different ways that I think you should try more. It helps me success 1. Remove all addition USB (Except USB that contain windown) 2. If you are using 2 separate hardware like: SSD and HDD. And you wanna set up windown on SSD Please unplug HDD. Best regards!

You're an absolute legend, I've been running around for two days trying to work this out!

Just sharing experience: If you using 2 memory internal either ssd or hdd, just plug in the one you will used it, and try install like the normal (if still not work then you could try like this tutorial do). On my case I using hdd and ssd (as main win), after plug out hdd and try install again. It's work.

I did the Clean and Format part and then came back to the Error Screen ( after Exit twice from the Command Prompt) and resumes the installation without restarting it again. It Worked. Thanks a lot for the help.

Please bro help me... I used pandrive for installing windows when i format my C Drive it goes to Unallocated space. So i can't create New Partition. And Mistakenly My pendrive data was removed by using your method. What to do now 🤐

Great tutorial! Question, what causes that error? And Thanks 😌

when i write "create partition primary size=5000" What i get is error - "Diskpart has encountere an error: Data error (cyclic redundancy check)."

Getting a error after cleaning disk while creating partition primary (disk part has encountered as error : the requst could not be performed because of as I/O device error)

Hi, i tried ur method. But in the end i got this error "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks." I tried install windows 11 from bootable usb drive. My laptop using nvme ssd. Any idea on how to solve this

I have done all steps up to. Create partition primary size=5000 And the result is(disk part has encountered an error: the request could not be performed because of an I/o device error. See the system event log for more information.) Please help me to solve this error

Why i get this?: " Diskpart has encountered an error: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. See the system event log for more information. " Please help me

In your describtion it should be /e/h/k instead of /d/h/k

I'm 14 years old and I really fixed my problem when accidentally changed GPT to MBR😂 .So thank you so much😊

TODAY 27.04.2024 IT IS WORKING

I would like to add something. If you've plugged two or three hard drives, it won't work. Please connect only one hard drive 🙏. It's what I've experienced 😢

very nice. Thank you! Installed new Adata SSD in Samsung chornos 7 laptop, but couldn't get win 10 to load.

Another solution that worked for me: Disconnect all drives. Even SD Card and CD Drives if any. Make sure nothing extra shows up except for Target drive and USB INSTALLATION Drive Use Load Driver>Browse to ensure only 2 drives appear

I repaired it successfully. Thank you so much! :))

Cheers bro this helped. If anyone is still encountering the same problem, make sure to boot from the local drive that you copied the installation files to.

I ended up getting " This partition is too small. Make the size of this partition at least 10270 MB or select another partition " :( What do I do now.

when I type any of the commands such as "clean" I just get a massive list of shit which ultimately says no...

I just did clean and it fixed my issue I didn't need to do more than that to my M.2

I Did something wrong. Now it says : an operating system wasn’t found. Try disconnecting any drives that don’t contain an operating system. Press ctrl+alt+del to restart . What should I do ?

When the comment section solves my problem by the 0:40 second mark and I never have to finish the video....

Bro after install.win it's showing "file creation error-the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable ". What shoukd i do. Please tell me😢😢

2:03 I'm using a usb, what's my command line

Do all this but add 'convert gpt' after 'clean' if you have m.2 ssd

It worked from me. I've booted again from the USB stick, deleted all the partitions again and selected the empty space. It worked!

Thankyou very much!!! It's still workin till now🤩

you need to delete the partition you are installing windows on so it can reformat the partition to the correct formatting

What the hell. You didn't say that this will delete all my hard disk !!

Thanks for the help! On a side note, why does this happen? I had ubuntu and windows installed on my disk when it suddenly wouldnt boot, then I got this error on both of my drives.

Thank you for this video! I was ready to give up with Win10 installation and go back to Linux but this really made my day.

I don't understand, Overnight, it became impossible for me to install Windows 10 or 11. While trying to install Windows Tiny 10, it worked once, but when I tried to install Tiny 11, the problem reoccurred. I will try your method and will come back to comment. Apparently, you have helped many people."

Thanks bro.... saved me from having a hard time.

Thanks so much! I don’t know what I would do without you! Saved me completely.

Mine got stuck on install.esd

Thanks. This helped to bypass the error message. After copying the files I removed USB stick and restarted and now I am able to proceed with installing Windows system. Great!

It formatted whole of my disk, you should mandatorily put caution for the command 'clear'. It just ruined my pc deleting my personal files. Shit!!!!

PERFECT! What a brilliant help. Much appreciated.

Man, do you sometime works at Microsoft? Ahhahahaha you saved my life

I had this issue and that my hard drive was failing! R.I.P

Thanks man. Was almost convinced that my laptop's hardware fried since nothing was working. This worked like magic.

It says Disk part has encountered an error

Not working at all. I have tried for many times😭😭

Thanks!! Ive been at this all day and your method worked first time!! I subbed and liked By the way if you finished all these steps but still cant do it, you need to shut down your PC, unplug the USB with windows on it, then boot up your PC again, go to the bios, select the boot menu, then select the hard drive you want windows installed on, and boot in to that, then you will be able to continue the tutorial. Again thanks!!

i skip the create partition primary i close the cmd after that i reformat and there will be a message pop ups after that u will notice your options is disabled excluded “new” click that and declare a partition after that everything is gonna fine 😁

Thanks this works! But after leaving diskpart I proceeded to type "convert gpt" As this is what the installation required and didn't copy the files. I used the usb itself for installation, so no need to copy the files to the storage and make unnecessary removal of usb.

After 2.59 Remove USB and boot with that partition you just created

My laptop burst into fire after this

Thank you If you can not access Shift F10 then pug in a USB Keyboard

Thanks for help this really work for me but only problem my data is lost.

Didn't work for me. Now it says the selected disk has an MBR partition table. Windows can only be installed on gpt disks

great job!!! One worth to leave comment though, I had to restart the PC after the process to Installer be able to start installing on unallocated space

Mine has more problems now 🤦🏼‍♂️

I resolved that problem by using usb connector 2.0 (black one) instead of 3.0(the blue one)