(Quick Tip)We couldnt create a new partition or locate an existing one

1. Start the windows installation from your USB drive

2. Once at the windows setup screen Press Shift+F10

3. in command prompt type: wmic logicaldisk get deviceid, volumename, description this will display all disks in the system you need to remember witch drive letter is assigned to witch drive.

4. In command prompt type diskpart.exe and press enter.

5. Type list disk check the drive you want to install windows on and note the disk number.

6. Type: select disk=0 If disk 0 is your destination drive, so be careful, all information on this drive will be removed.

6. Type: clean again be careful all information on this drive will be removed.

7. Type: create partition primary size=xxx, where xxx – is the size of new partition

8. Type: select partition=1

9. Type: active

10. Type: format fs=ntfs quick

11. Type: assign

12. Type: exit, now you have a bootable drive C

Next you will need to copy the windows installation files from your usb drive to your hard drive to do this run the following commands.

13. Navigate to USB flash drive, in my case: cd d:

14. Copy all files from USB drive to C: drive: xcopy d: c: /e /h /k
Note If your drive letters differ you can change the assigned letter using the disk part utility using
the following commands
14.1 diskpart
14.2 list volume
14.3 select volume #
14.4 assign letter=V
You can then check that you have your primary partition assigned the letter c with the following command
14.5 wmic logicaldisk get deviceid, volumename, description

15. Go to boot folder: cd boot

16. Make you C: drive bootable with following command: bootsect /nt60 c:

17. Unplug the USB drive from computer and restart it.

18. The computer should now automatically boot into Windows Setup.

You can now install windows from the hard drive and no longer receive the error,
We couldn’t create a new partition or locate an existing one

Once you have successfully installed windows you may want to remove the windows setup entery from your boot list.
To accomplish this please run the following commands from within an elevated command prompt.

1. Run cmd.exe as Administrator
2. See boot menu list bcdedit
3. Find Windows Setup and copy identifier
4. Run bcdedit /delete {identifier}

Thanks for reading and i hope this post was able to assist you.

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