I am getting problem while installing windows 7 on my single partition hard disk. I am using bootable USB drive for the installation. The error I get is "Setup was unable to create new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See the setup log files for more information". When I opened the setup log file(setuperr.log), it shows the error "Couldn't find boot disk on the BIOS based computer". Have anyone got this error before. Please help!!
More Info:
Boot Sequence:USB, Harddisk
System: Dell Inspiron 1545
Best Answer
I got this same error, setting the hard disk as 1st (and even removing the USB stick from the boot order) did not help. As far as I can tell, this is some interaction in the BIOS that prevents the win10 installer from thinking that the installation target drive is bootable, perhaps due to the particular USB key I was using (a USB 3.0 Kingston DataTraveler). I solved it by creating an "install partition" on the target disk using diskpart from the command line (shift+F10 in the installer):
then copy the installer files from the USB key to the temporary partition:
and reboot, remove the USB key, and boot from the temporary install partition. The win10 installer will detect that the disk is bootable this time through & will let you install. When you're done with the installer you can remove the temporary partition and resize your main partition to take up the whole disk.