Windows cannot be installed to this disk

biosboothard drivewindowswindows 8.1

I ran into a problem today. I have a HP pavillion dm4 laptop and it was running windows 7. I wanted to install windows 8.1 and used a bootable usb drive. I did custom install and formatted and deleted one partition. But unfortunately the drive was Dynamic and every other partitions were merged into single one. This not the problem coz I think I can recover the data and I have most important data backuped. The problem is that the OS cannot be installed. It shows the following error message:

Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may
not support booting to this disk. Ensure the disk's controller is
enabled in the computer's BIOS menu.

I searched for the problem and were some suggestions like setting on the AHCI mode on BIOS. But there is no option for SATA mode in my BIOS configuration. I am in deep trouble.
Please help me.
Thank you.

Best Answer

Check my answer on the following question "Computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk" when trying to install Windows 10

I encountered this problem once when installing windows 10 on ASUS Transformer Book Flip TP200SA. I solved the problem by changing the USB mode from auto to forced fdd. That may solve your problem too.

i hope it will solve your problem.

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