I received two computers, and they are both having identical problems. I am booting from USB and I see the hard drive, but I get this message "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition
. Searching this there were multiple people that had success with using the disk part utility. I ran the utility twice, on BOTH computers and I was still getting the same errors.
I was getting this error message:
I went into disk part and asked for disk attributes and I got that my disk had boot disk set to no.
How do I change this? I reset my bios, and I removed all devices from the boot sequence except for my HardDrive and my USB that contains Windows 7.
Other notes: With no usb in the computer the computer complains about bootmgr missing, but this is useless because I want to do a clean install anyway.
Best Answer
This sucks.
I found my solution after about another 5 wasted hours of my life.
I stumbled upon this "fix" on MS's technet blog
I saw a comment:
Could it be? This particular USB stick being the issue? (I have 3 of these). I tried it on another. Same issue. Took another generic 4GB staples usb from like 5 years ago... worked fine.
Kingston. You suck. I don't know why, but you do.
Side note: Put Ubuntu on the USB. Booted/installed just fine on the Kingston.