[Fix] Error during installing Windows 7 from USB (Setup was unable to create a system partition or locate an existing partition.)

Ошибка во время установки Windows 7 с флешки (Программе установки не удалось создать новый или найти существующий системный раздел) | Druss Blog

2013-10-11 15:57:09

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Tommy

2014-09-13 04:48:27

OMFG thanks !, been looking for hours, only working solution.

Shone

2015-06-03 00:25:00

I want to find this guy that posted this solution and buy him fucking LOT OF BEER. I've beenfucking with partitions, booting some wizards to try and change some shit, but this only took me like 15 seconds, and done the trick. Thanks dude, thanks a fucking lot!!!

Jake

2016-11-04 03:36:39

Amen. This guy is a genius. This fixed my problem too and I owe this man a LOT OF BEER!

PEDROGUCCI

2017-12-12 21:45:27

Love u man

jeet

2017-03-16 08:39:41

your are too good man... Damn good working solution

Vyper

2014-11-08 01:16:32

thank you! seriously hours this worked!

Ravi

2014-11-17 06:30:41

Great Man !!!
I relaxed !!! after this... Thanks a Ton

Jerry

2014-11-02 17:48:18

I got the same error. It has to do with the USB keys.
I have a OEM x64 Win7 USB key build.

Fails if I use it on a
Kingston Data traveller USB3.0
SanDisk Extreme USB 3.0

Works with Verbatim USB 3.0 USB key

Diskparting, doing the plug in and out did not work.

All keys were built form ISO using Microsoft ISO to DVD/USB tool

Richie G

2015-12-18 08:21:52

Thanks!!!!
I exhausted options on install screen and was totally stuck. Was going to redo bootable USB and try again, but this "tricky" solution worked.
FYI I couldn't follow exact instructions as the steps differed, but simply unplugging USB, closing install window, then plugging it in again at install screen worked for me.
Well done Druss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nemanja

2015-04-17 15:48:10

you saved my life, i love you :* <3

Anonymous

2015-05-26 19:25:50

Chalk me up as another person with an issue using dataTraveler. I did the exact same procedure on an old Corsair, and things worked perfectly.

Mauricio

2015-01-19 02:25:31

I justo cantón believe it.
I spent the last 2 hours surfing the net looking for a solución and nothing worked, when I was going to call it a lost battle I saw your comment, look at the laptop and my USB stick was a DataTraveler USB 3.0... Switched it to an old INE and voilà

test321321@gmail.com

2015-04-27 02:33:43

Thanks for the comment. I have the same USB key and couldn't figure out what the issue was. Tried a different USB key and was able to install windows 7.

Jerrys fan

2017-04-06 20:39:28

Thank you really thank you so much.

Matias

2014-11-21 23:35:47

I just dont know why..... but the 3rd time I tryed (doing the same every time), it finally worked!!

THANKS!!

marian

2014-08-15 10:06:13

Thank you so fcking muuchhhhh ..m you are awesome

Ormedor

2014-06-22 19:13:05

So I've read a million stupid forum and you are only given the solution .. hats off and salute you ... Thank you ...

Asimilacija

2014-06-22 14:18:40

thx so much. best fix i found . THANK YOU . saved me from breaking my laptop into little pieces :D

jorge

2014-07-24 08:00:58

El que sabe, sabe, muchas gracias me ha ahorrado mucho tiempo

Alex

2014-09-21 04:41:29

When i unplug my usb device it wont appear any windows version to select.

jubin varghese

2014-09-01 15:34:51

U r great man.. U just saved a lot of my time... Thank u so much... Very best solution available online

Melih

2015-03-01 21:54:43

THANNKKKK YOUUUU SOOOO MUCH . That is perfect solution . tttttyyyyy
OMG :D
BASİC SOLUTİON

Rholando

2015-01-12 01:14:59

Best Stupid solution !!!

Thank You x 100

Jason Everett

2014-09-14 01:37:59

dude....

Jason Everett

2014-09-14 01:38:20

DUDE. YOU ARE A GOD. THANK YOU SO, SO MUCH. Please spread and share the article.

Jackaizen

2014-11-28 11:37:29

First, I appreciate and thank you very much that you have shared your precious solution. I believe this is the only smartest and fastest solution and worked like charm.

Spending around an hour and from USB 2, USB 3, diskpart....etc....nothing worked.

Again, thank you.

Keisha

2016-02-10 13:21:45

BS low - raltinatioy high! Really good answer!

oussama

2014-07-12 21:37:44

i never comment in a forum. but now i did just to thank u ! thanks man !

Desmond

2015-12-23 09:50:45

Thanks man u are a legend.........

Nikonic

2014-06-12 03:18:28

Unplugging all of my usb devices seemed to do the trick for me

Cav83

2017-01-19 02:40:29

After searching 457,362,823 different versions of the same stupid solutions, THIS did the trick. Thank you for posting it and saving my computer from heavy percussive maintenance!

Kyomizu

2015-10-26 12:35:34

Thanks so much much much mr.druss :)
i've found many solution in google,but also not work :(
your solution work for me
Thanks OAO !

Stan

2014-08-04 15:32:25

super nice trick, TY

Hari

2014-03-02 17:07:05

Thank You

Top

2014-08-14 00:56:24

You are awesome!!!

Ranveer

2014-05-28 20:53:37

Thanks for the post. It worked for me.

Philip John

2014-07-23 05:54:52

Awesome......3 days with no luck trying other solutions.....July are good bro

Ashish Kumar

2014-09-23 06:39:44

If possible, try to boot system from Windows 7 using an EXTERNAL DVD ROM. I have tried it and it worked successfully on my Acer Laptop.

Richard

2014-07-23 11:15:09

Thanks, good find, this worked when nothing else would.

jointer

2014-06-07 15:33:50

Thank you so much ! It worked like a charm

vukota

2014-06-23 10:39:32

Nice, it worked for me. Thanks.

Prashant Arya

2014-11-12 15:01:50

Thanks.. its really working.. :-)

jackykho

2014-09-28 11:48:50

yo thx bro ! good job

AJ

2014-10-09 19:20:40

You are the man!!! Thank you

Onder

2015-07-31 10:49:28

THX panpa.

kais

2014-08-28 13:01:46

tku you are the king

Achtung Panzer

2014-09-13 13:57:12

Thank You very mucchh Ivan,you've give best solution when I'm frustated can not installing Windows on S215

Wesley

2014-08-29 14:56:30

IT IS SO EASY! I searched for hours until i found it on some random forum. For me the first USB stick I tried didn't like the install and kept giving me "Setup was unable to create a new system partition". Put the windows installer on a different USB and it worked FIRST TIME!

Fru Godwill Fru

2014-10-13 01:07:58

am still stucked tho...when i remove my usb it doesnt load to the windows 7 selection list...it just trips again

THANKS

2014-10-06 17:57:31

thanks dude that ended my 2 day rampage search for solutions

Jason

2014-09-04 07:49:44

Perfect man, thanks for super easy and fast solution !

fluffbubbles

2014-08-19 20:35:51

Thank you so much! You've just saved me more hours of trouble

Gideon

2014-08-20 11:25:35

GREAAATTTTthx bro for the solutions, i've been stuck for 3 hours

thx a lot

ashan

2015-01-11 21:00:09

this worked!!! wow...you're the man!

the guh

2014-09-21 07:27:49

thanks guys (y)

koko

2014-09-05 10:56:28

Maaaann i love youuu...its fuckn wooorked

Alex

2015-08-09 11:02:05

Dude u are the best thank you!!!

henhache

2014-10-02 05:01:00

YOU DID IT!

I spent a whole day trying to get this fixed. 10 hours googling and reading forums,
I DISKPART until I was blue in the face,

Who knew unplugging my usb thumb drive was the solution.

linux2daRescue

2014-09-02 03:11:08

U-N-B-E-L-I-E-V-A-B-L-E.... all crashes from linux I've easily fixed within minutes...Windows...after a couple updates I got the black screen of ambiguity...had to reinstall in the end... then I got that setup error. Found your solution, even if it was not your own, you posted it and here I am giving my thanks to you for that.

Michael

2014-09-02 13:23:27

Man!!! you are hilarious . i ve tried all of the possible ways to bypass this issue and could but your solution worked.hahahaa.
Thanks alot dude.

Chris

2014-07-27 04:25:26

This didnt work for me. i am downgrading windows 8 to windows 7. i made a windows 7 iso on an 8 gb usb drive. everytime install it says: Setup was unable to create a new system partition

druss

2014-07-27 12:40:35

Try this solution: http://ivanderevianko.com/2014/07/fixed-setup-was-unable-to-create-a-new-system-partition-or-locate-an-existing-system-partition-during-installing-windows-8-18-7-vista-etc-from-usb/

Chris

2014-07-27 04:26:22

please help. i am so messed up.

druss

2014-07-27 12:40:57

Try this one: http://ivanderevianko.com/2014/07/fixed-setup-was-unable-to-create-a-new-system-partition-or-locate-an-existing-system-partition-during-installing-windows-8-18-7-vista-etc-from-usb/

Sujeet Kumar

2014-06-25 11:00:30

Tussi great ho paah ji....!!!

muntakim

2014-06-24 23:34:03

thnx a lot bro..it worked..!!!..simply amaizing <3 <3

nilerafter24

2014-09-11 07:24:26

You sir are a god!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Jatinder

2014-09-09 09:53:16

Sooooooooooooooo...............Many..................Thanxxxxxxxxxxxx.............!!!!!

Adam

2014-09-09 21:09:05

MATEEEEE you are a hero lol was realy pissing me off thanks

hhoanganh

2014-10-28 12:28:58

Thanks, it works

Aadrish

2016-02-07 13:33:00

Just to share my experience. I tried the method more then 10x but didn't work. Fortunately i had Hiren's BootCD. With the help of it, i opened up Mini WinXp (pre-installed in Hiren's BootCD package). There is System Reserved drive with BootMgr in it. I deleted everything in it and restart the installation process and it started as it should be without any errors. Currently I've just installed the Win7 Ultimate. Its working fine. Thanks

Irina

2014-08-25 15:55:47

You are god! Thank you so so much! I tried almost every other "solution" but this worked!

catalin

2014-11-29 16:16:26

Very good! Thanks!

Birkir

2014-10-28 09:01:43

thank you so much. i had been stuck on this for 8 hours, tried everything. this is so simple and worked brilliantly.

Grateful Gal

2014-08-25 07:26:37

AMAZING!! THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOO mUCH!!!!!

Peter

2014-08-09 12:48:40

You, Sir, are fuc*n awesome!!!!

slash

2014-09-12 20:26:25

Man your awesome!Work like a charm!God bless you!

Victor

2014-08-25 01:55:29

I have the same problem yet :(

I tried all the steps but at step 4, appears the next error message: "A required CD/DVD drive device is missing. If you have a driver disk CD, DVD or USB flash drive, please insert it now". Then I push OK button, connected my usb and only appears two buttons Brownse and Rescan but any of them work :(, The next error message appears: "No device drivers were found. Make sure that the installation media contains the correct drivers, and then click OK"

Please help me :(

Many thanks

anywho

2014-09-01 10:07:31

I've tried everything and it's not working also for me :(
Have exactly the same symptoms.
I'm using Kingston 64GB DT R3.0 G2 pendrive.

vinny

2016-02-09 02:41:03

Thanks dude tried everything apart from that
cheers pal

SciGravity

2014-10-02 09:42:43

Same problem. Any solution? Please help!

druss

2014-10-02 12:31:00

Try to follow this images:
http://www.vadzhra.ru/oshibka_pri_ustanovke_windows_s_usb_fleshki.html

Fru Godwill Fru

2014-10-13 01:05:03

its in some weird language...please help!

tsly

2014-10-21 04:45:10

Plug the flash drive back in before clicking start installation the second time (so immediately after you click the red x and brought back to the beginning). That fixed it for me.

oliver

2014-10-29 00:27:38

this! unplugging the usb after getting the error and then just plugging it back before starting another installation process "fixed" the problem... owing you a six-pack now, at 1:30 AM Wndows started installing finally.

dhani

2014-11-19 06:19:54

I am speechless bro.. Thanks so much.. It took me 2 days to figure it out thanks to you.. I asked all of my friend and none of them know how to handle this error.. Thanks again bro

JC

2014-08-31 18:37:28

I get the same error too! The other method Druss has found doesn't work either. Any tips Druss?

MindegyIs

2014-11-30 11:35:06

I had the same. You have to go back as the Installer requires your USB stick still. Put the USB stick back, and when the licence acceptance screen appears -- or maybe the Upgrade/Custom Installation selection screen, I don't remember, but to figure it out, it only needs a minute -- pull it out. Now you can have the system partition created. This is what matters, it should be existing at the end!!! From this point, you can push the stick back in, and play again from the beginning, choosing the already created partition. Voila...

MindegyIs

2014-11-30 22:21:50

Had to do a reinstall, so I can confirm that you need to remove the USB stick on the screen of license acceptance.

mister g

2014-09-11 23:03:02

thank you man
2014 September 2:00 PM here... it's working
if you want to divide the partitions try to do it after the installation when you finish everything. thank u again

Michael Champe

2014-09-11 21:21:23

Holy F**, I can't believe something so simple worked.

Praise 9/11.

Leoo

2014-06-08 18:06:19

oooooooooomg tyyyyyyyy you save my life , i love youu so much <3 <3

Goran

2014-08-23 12:16:05

Thanks man..VERY MUCH

Cheezay Weezay

2014-07-20 21:33:10

Correct guy...u be winch ooh

dave

2014-06-10 01:53:01

this worked fine for me. thank you

[Fixed] “Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition” during installing Windows 8.1(8, 7, Vista, etc) from USB | Druss Blog

2014-07-16 10:13:04

[…] have already found tricky solution for Windows 7 but it didn’t help me with Windows […]

MrDurian

2014-08-03 05:57:15

Omgggg! This works!! I've tried other method, setting boot priority, unplugging all other hard disks, and was even about using other comp to set up gnome to erase partition from unix! And this workaround works! I've spent two dayss on this!

Kerekes Peter

2014-07-03 06:11:28

FUCK STUPID WINDOWS!!! THANX!!!

James

2014-10-02 12:28:48

Life saver. Only if I had visited this page earlier.
Lost a lot of data because of a stupid command prompt error

miki

2014-11-04 17:25:44

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees.thny work win7 64 bit kingston usb3.

mike

2014-08-31 15:00:19

Id suck yo dick

Gaurav Genius

2014-08-31 12:59:40

I'm lucky that this link was first in my google search for this issue. I'm impressed with the solution it was so easy. Actually I have faced it before but could not identified the reason and this time I got the reason. Thanks DRUSS.

Kaleb

2014-09-03 20:47:55

Absolutely fantastic. Thank you very much.. I thought I was going to have to buy a new laptop, haha.

ray boy

2015-03-22 23:55:46

Theory is correct. I just had to restart the setup third time for this to work.

Vafa

2014-02-25 15:03:09

You are a god. thank you so much for this. finally got it working! curious as to how you figured it out!?

trial and error?

druss

2014-02-26 11:10:55

Just google this solution.

John

2014-04-29 09:00:58

THANK YOU SOO MUCH! YOU ARE AWESOME! IVE TRIED ALL THE SUGGESTIONS AND TUTORIALS BUT YOURS WAS THE BEST AND MOST EFFECTIVE!! CANT THANK YOU ENOUGH!

Dave

2014-09-15 09:34:46

Thank you, was on the point of chucking the damn thing out the window when I found this.

Peter

2015-09-29 17:13:08

I already knew about the removal of the drive to get the hard disc formatted but did not know about the kingston datatraveler problem, so today i am messing with the Kingston DT drive trying to install win 7 on Asus mboard and it's just not having it, i take onboard the advice and install windows to a Lexar drive and BANG ! works like a charm. Thanks all and what a great blog !!

Rex

2014-02-05 00:46:43

Hi Ivan,

I am so impressed. After so many attempts on the web, looking for this solution.
Too good you are.

Rex

druss

2014-02-05 14:56:59

You are welcome ;)

Stokes

2015-01-28 00:22:32

I love you. I started off trying to clone a hdd to a smaller ssd. then the 100mb boot partition was missing and when i tried to repair using the key it made it completely unbootable. i spent around 10 hours trying to figure this out. thanks man

Gyula

2014-12-14 16:33:27

1000 thx!

biohazardd1986

2014-12-14 18:38:05

i have have a this problem for 2 day . ur the best man thanks aloot :D grertings from noway :D

Sadiq Jan

2015-02-25 12:58:13

Tried many ways to solve this problem but only this one worked perfectly.
Thanks a lot.

Jihee

2015-02-09 09:23:24

OMFG when I read the description I was like there is no way this is gonna work, this is total bullshit and this worked. After 2 hours. Wow Thanks soooo much

mohammed

2014-11-15 14:47:10

Was gonna give up.
Thank you so much finally got it going.

icemedown

2014-10-30 04:06:31

I don't know how this works but thanks. i have been at this for the past 3 hours and one unplug of the usb fixed it. Great tip!

:)

ms

2014-10-14 20:04:37

This worked like a charm.
Tried other suggestions on the web but none of them worked.

Thanks so much :)

Mackenzie Gans

2014-10-15 09:12:14

You're the best! A man among boys! I tried every disk part and disk management tool and nothing worked until your trick!!!!!!

Fedor

2016-05-02 00:20:11

Hey man, that is cool! My wifw would have killed me for bricking her computer without this hint :)

Adam

2015-08-27 11:47:09

Fucking brilliant!

Leelath

2015-04-06 18:41:16

How in the WORLD is this even possible? I was breaking my head over this, and your fix seemed so... easy and unlikely that I skipped it and broke my head over this a couple more hours. Then I finally thought "whatever let's give this a try" and omfg it WORKED. lmao, never skip something because it looks too "easy". Seriously, thanks so much !

Kyle

2014-11-18 04:33:39

holy............ thank you you geniussssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss it actually worked hahahahahaha <33333

Any

2014-10-18 13:02:16

Really helped. This is quickest solution I found on internet. Works 100%

Jason Schoon

2015-07-13 04:54:37

Seriously. Agree with the other folks who offered to buy a beer, this is amazing and saved me so much time. I hate dinking around with reinstalling old computers and this was about to really piss me off until I found your answer.

Thanks!!!

karen

2014-12-07 10:34:11

Thank you thank you thank you, this simple solution worked I wish I found this page sooner

ore

2015-01-05 19:25:33

You are awesome! Love & thank you!
:DDDD

mark

2014-10-22 16:34:09

Tried everything and got similar results as JC, Victor and any who. Maybe because we are installing a windows 7 home premium flash drive? I don't know , but nothing is working.

mark

2014-10-22 16:34:49

Please someone help

Karla

2014-11-22 00:39:17

THANK YOUUUUUUUUU

Olasunkanmi

2015-01-07 19:07:30

Mehn, you are great. you just saved me from another blushes.. It worked like a charm.
It strikes me how you get to know this solution. even Microsoft website never gave us this option.

Thanks Man !

art

2015-01-07 20:34:01

thenk you master :D but why?

druss

2015-01-08 09:05:47

I think it is somehow related to the driver order. When you unplug USB and the plugin it back storage order is changed and it is somehow affect windows installer.

Michael

2014-11-25 11:15:12

Worked, don't know how but it did! thanks very much!!!

Aki

2015-01-27 10:29:26

I don't usually comment on these, but this was the only working solution for me. Thank you alot.

Few notes: changing the drive, the command prompt doesn't work properly. While it seems that the folder has not been changed, it actually is. For me atleast. Took me few hours to realize this, since the cd command wasn't "working" but after that, everything went smoothly. My drive letters were e: and f:, so people should pay attention to this

mans

2015-07-16 21:09:13

wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww !!!!!!!!!! I caaaaaaaaant believe it works ! wowwww
im goingggggg to buy u a drink :-)))))))

khaleesimylady

2015-12-02 01:14:12

Thanks a lot!!!!!!!

It really worked seamlessly... Just had to follow the instruction and resolved the problem in no time... I tried several instructions over the internet and this was the only one that worked for me..

Anyway, I used Kingston USB 3.0 Data Traveler Model 100G, 8GB

Great work buddy!!!!

Sabir Shabbir

2015-02-10 03:37:37

Dear Brother! your method for solution of “Setup was unable to create a system partition or locate an existing partition” is astonishing and wonderful... you have solved this problem via simple and quick way. Thanks a lot brother.

es

2014-11-18 15:57:47

holy shiz this method actually work..
i was worried to use the clean disk method coz of my 2tb file is in same disk
thanks a lot pal :)

John

2015-05-26 19:35:39

Thankz mate !

hyperion1is

2015-03-10 13:11:29

This is a good trick. I will try it because I got this error also.
Another trick is to make the USB Stick Write protected (or Read-only). I didn't test this, but I plan to.
This error occurs because Widows 7 setup makes 100 m System reserved on Stick (or at least tries to). So making the Stick Read-only, the stick will act like a CD or DVD, hence no error.
Just letting people know. You can test and post about this solution.
Making a USB Stick Read-only is easy but also they are small utilities for convenience.
Thanks for the post !

John Player Special

2014-11-22 16:47:01

My friend, you' re too strong! ;-) Thanks a lot.

Aman

2015-07-19 19:09:08

Your solution was fucking awesome. Thank a ton!!

tomk

2014-12-10 08:19:15

WOW stupid shit done, money we will get mlg mlg mlg i see dead dogs everywhere!

Ali Padida

2015-01-11 18:37:44

Worked Like a Charm. Thanks.

Pepe

2014-11-27 19:36:15

OMG!! That works!!

Shone

2015-06-03 00:51:02

Hey bro, your trick worked like a charmed, I started laughing my ass off when the installation started because I was SOOO Happy! :D But now, a different problem appears - "A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart" on the black screen.. Do you maybe have some great solutions like this one for that problem, help me IT Master! :D

Ly

2015-10-07 18:13:29

Great! Works fine ;) thanks !

Kasun Munasinghe

2015-08-27 05:18:07

It has worked for me. Thanks mate.

azsujon

2015-09-15 12:03:26

its work thanks. :)

Russell

2014-12-06 23:17:58

Installing win 7 pro from a USB stick onto a brand new SSD. Tried a few suggestions from around the web, this was the one that worked for me. Thank you.

Not sure there is any logical reason for why it worked, but it did.

Raju Rahman

2014-12-09 11:43:01

It's magic or not? it's amazing! Thnx a lot

John

2015-06-12 21:43:14

U are fucking aawensome!!!!!!!! Thank you , after 3 fucking days of trying, that means alot of time wasted to fiind the fcking solution you saved my ass in 10 seconds. Best Fcking Trick ever!!!!!!!!!

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sikandershah

2015-11-07 10:22:38

Thank you, Thank you,Thank you, Thank you.................................................... Very Much ! Issue resolved, i
:)

Mikkel

2016-03-31 13:12:19

Fuck me, it worked.
I was just about to yell at you for bullshitting, geeez Microsoft why is this an actual solution!?

This is the first laptop I've encountered this error on, normally installing from a USB stick works flawlessly.

I had an ssd connected internally via sata and was trying to install windows 7 from a USB stick when I encountered the "setup was unable to create a new system partition" error.
I removed the USB stick, exited back to the initial setup screen, reinserted the USB stick and suddenly windows 7 setup didn't prog the error.

Eternally grateful.

Joel

2015-09-12 11:36:35

GIVE THIS MAN A SLICE OF UKRAINE, no, GIVE THIS MAN A LIFETIME SUPPORT OF FREE BEERS, I mean omg THANKS MAN. You made my two sleepless nights to be peaceful

Valentino

2015-10-12 18:27:13

Kingston 16gb data traveller 3.0, struggled for days!, replaced with Adata, bang!!!
Thanks Pal!!!

NIGHT TH

2015-05-30 05:07:49

Many thanks (:

firman

2016-06-29 17:51:16

wtf man this works perfectoo. the text about cannot install to this partition meybe still appear, but ignore it. just click next btw.

this is my first comment to a solution about windows. thanks mann

Malthesen

2016-07-21 14:49:49

I managed to figure this out, and strange enough non of the above solutions did it. So this is what worked for me. I had 3 hdd's connected, a primary SSD which I wanted to install windows on and 2 slaves or secondary hdd's whatever you cant to call them. For me to be able to install windows on the primary hdd I had to disconnect the 2 hdd's else I would get the errors no matter what I did. After I disconnected the 2 hdd's I could install, format, partition or any other option in the install manager without problems.

Andrei

2015-07-11 22:07:49

Congratulatios!!!!!!!!

malthesen

2016-07-05 11:44:38

None of these solutions works, i get "Windows cant be installed on drive x partition x", depending on which seriel connection its on and this is using 2 different usb sicks on a ssd when removing it at the license screen. Just leaving it in im getting the cant create psrtition error.

Pontus Magnusson

2016-09-13 03:05:46

I could kiss you dude. A simple step-by-step guide that actually works seems farfetched after browsing through hours of complicated tutorials on how to deal with this awkward problem.

Now I'm laying in the sofa watching Windows install on it's own with a massive endorphine flow running through my head and IT'S ALL THANKS TO YOU<33

akme

2016-03-25 12:44:16

Awesome .... wrked completely fine thanks man...

sunny thakur

2015-07-03 11:09:01

Too good..its solved.. thanks a lot buddy

sentna

2015-08-04 11:26:50

works 100% , thanxs man!!!!!!!!!!!!

rohit

2015-02-24 17:41:05

Help me please!!!! I am not able to install window
I am trying on cruze blade pen drive

Nick

2015-11-03 06:05:13

Worked for me....thanks

Warlock

2016-07-30 14:39:56

You are a god damn wizard, thanks!

PEDROGUCCI

2017-12-12 21:46:23

Love u man

Stephan

2016-07-21 01:21:10

Thanks this trick made my day :)

It really works!

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Agustin

2015-05-10 22:57:40

Thanks for the solution! Works great!

Theo

2016-02-03 14:40:19

Just want to share my experience. We burn a lot of bootable ISO's to flashdrives to setup anything from Windows server series to Windows 7 through 10. We ONLY have issues with Kingston drives when it comes to this. I spoke to a guy at tech support from Kingston and after a lot of useless info it basically boils down to its not guaranteed to boot. So i tried all the other troubleshooting options like diskpart, full formats and even the linux way of partitioning and formatting. So several days later i checked my bios and as always the USB disk shows as a harddrive like any other brand of USB disk. I noticed there was a note in the right hand page to "press N" to remove the Kingston USB disk as a "harddrive" which will then mark it as a removeable disk. After pressing N the disk disappeared from the harddisk list and i save/rebooted. It works perfect now!!! This wasnt necessary for any of my other USB disks which booted perfectly every time on various hardware platforms except for my Kingston G3 and Fury 3.0 drives.

Hope this could help some other frustrated techie :D

Delcha

2016-03-09 23:00:07

You are fucking genius!!! THX man!!

Sale slas

2015-11-12 01:11:01

Why the hell does this work. And why did it take so long to find. I went through every other fix out there till I found this one.

David

2015-08-23 15:16:49

After painfull hours trying different methods I found solution that worked for me. (Step 1) Make sure you have a partition created to install your OS on. (Step 2) Boot into BIOS and make sure your HDD is listed as first boot option then save and exit. (step 3) After restart hit the hotkey for boot options, in my case F9 for HP. Select your USB and whalla, proceed with installation.

Nunzio

2015-10-19 23:28:33

This is the solution for me!
I have a sandisk, nothing was working but now it doesn't give that error enimore!
You saved my day!

Crusader

2015-08-05 13:18:57

I don't know how is it possible, but IT WORKED! Thank you

btsai

2015-08-05 09:20:18

Saved me hours of frustration.
Thank you!
Using Marvel USB 3.0 drive.

Steve

2015-12-13 21:20:36

Absolutely GREAT solution!! Like many here I spent hours f'ing with solutions that didn't work!!! 10 seconds later, after finding this post, issue fixed!!! This guy deserves more kudos and thanks that I can give him!!! Great POST!!!

maham

2015-11-24 14:33:44

thanx mate... you are aawwwwsome....... worked like a smooth butter.....

Duja

2015-07-23 12:17:42

Bravo batice!

Jozef

2015-09-10 20:40:14

Thank you for this solution. I succeeded even with DataTraveller. It is needed to find the right point when to insert the stick back to port. I put it back after selection of the Windows version when the installation program was about to start.

Sir

2016-01-18 22:10:41

For once kicking my PC didn't help but this did

SrAfCiGeR

2015-08-23 13:36:51

I found few steps less !!!

When you see the error – remove the flash drive from the computer.

Remove all partitions and create new one.

Insert your USB Flash drive in to the computer.

Format the partition and click Next.

Install windows

Damian

2015-09-10 11:35:08

I want to make manly love to you.

Fixed the issue, and with a Kingston 16gb data traveller 3.0

This.... was.. I love you, hahaha

Pong K.

2015-07-26 20:09:23

THANK YOU!!!!!

I've spend the last two days and more hours than I want to recall trying to find a solution to this issue.

Reformatting my hard drive using cmd didn't work no matter how many times or how I did it, but this method worked the first time!

Dan

2016-07-16 11:12:58

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I tried every other suggestion on the interwebs (diskpart, mbr, gpt, bios in uefi mode) nothing worked until i tried this!

You Sir are a champion - even 3 years after you wrote this guide :D

[Fix] Error during installing Windows 7 from USB (Setup was unable to create a system partition or locate an existing partition.)

"Setup was unable to create a system partition or locate an existing partition."

When you see the error - remove the flash drive from the computer

Press exit (red cross in the top right corner)

Start installation from the beginning (without reboot)

After selecting Windows 7 edition you will get new error

Press OK in error window, you will be redirected to installation main menu

Insert your USB Flash drive in to the computer

Install windows