Windows 10: 2 Issues when installing windows: Windows must be installed to a partition formatted as...

So I am trying to install WIN 10 on Dell Inspiron 14 2 in 1 laptop. Laptop already had WIN 11 installed and now I have those 2 errors when I choose the drive.2 questions on this matter: How to solve those 2 errors and which drive to choose, thank you!

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Windows 7 wont install drivers

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If you having an issue installing a driver that worked before you formatted or wont install on a fresh build, sometimes this means hardware damage

 

Windows 7 installation issue

Hello, I'm having some issues installing Windows 7 RC1. I have a 750 gig HDD I split up for two OS's; Windows XP SP3 and Windows 7 RC1. The XP partition is 500 gigs, and the Windows 7 partition is 250 gigs. When I try to launch the installation of Windows 7 from the menu where you select the disk partition, I get the following message:

"Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See Setup log file for more information."

I've never had issues installing Windows as bad as this. What does Windows 7 need? I mean, I gave it a 250 gb partition, properly format it from the Windows 7 menu, and select it for installation, but the punishing message keeps comming up. XP recognises the partition that the Windows 7 installation disk created as an NTFS. And, I don't see where is this Setup log file!

Any help appreciated.

 

Installing Windows Vista/7 on a GUID Partition Table

I've never tried multiple partitions so this is a shot in the dark...

At step #10, I would try setting the size parameter (it is in mebibytes) to how large you want the partition windows is installed on to be, then go ahead and install windows. This will leave the rest of the drive raw instead of consuming it into the OS partition (C drive). Once you successfully boot into Windows, you should be able to use Computer Management -> Disk Management to create partitions in the raw space.


If you really wanted to do it with diskpart before Windows is installed, you basically repeat the following lines making sure to specify a size if you don't want it to consume all remaining space:

• create partition primary size=size in mebibytes here
• format quick fs=ntfs label="appropriate name here"
• assign letter=C thru Z here

Obviously, you can use quick formatting or leave it out for full format. Leave off the size parameter when you reach the final partition that should consume all the remaining space. Also remember that the order you do this in goes from the outside of the disk (where it is fastest) to the inside of the disk (where it is slowest). Because of this, it is recommended to put EFI (e.g. size=300), then MSR (e.g. size=300), then Windows (e.g. size=30000), then Applications (e.g. size=70000), then Storage (e.g. no size parameter).

If I'm right, the above example would look like this:

• diskpart
• list disk
• select disk <id>
• online disk
• attributes disk clear readonly
• clean
• convert gpt
  
• create partition efi size=300
  
• create partition msr size=300
  
• create partition primary size=30000
• format fs=ntfs label="Windows"
• assign letter=C
  
• create partition primary size=70000
• format fs=ntfs label="Applications"
• assign letter=D
  
• create partition primary
• format fs=ntfs label="Storage"
• assign letter=E
• exit