Windows 7 Installation Error – Setup Unable to Create or Locate System Partition

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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:
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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:

I had this error on RTM with the combination of Intel 310SSD and Kingston DataTraveler Elite 3.0 USB stick.

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.

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