Windows 10: Couldn't find my hard drive for fresh install of windows 10

Discus and support Couldn't find my hard drive for fresh install of windows 10 in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; I had been trying to freshly install windows 10 on my laptop using USB recovery drive. But during installation, in 'where you want to install windows'... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by Nirwan_pawar, May 6, 2020.

  1. Couldn't find my hard drive for fresh install of windows 10


    I had been trying to freshly install windows 10 on my laptop using USB recovery drive. But during installation, in 'where you want to install windows' section, I can't find any available drive for installation. Also, I tried formatting my hard disk using diskpart in command prompt. But I'm receiving error saying 'device which doesn't exist was specified'.

    Please help me get out of this and freshly install windows 10 on my laptop. Couldn't find my hard drive for fresh install of windows 10 [​IMG]

    :)
     
    Nirwan_pawar, May 6, 2020
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    Delta6326, May 6, 2020
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  3. little cat, May 6, 2020
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  4. more123 Win User

    Couldn't find my hard drive for fresh install of windows 10

    Fresh windows install help.

    Hi.
    I have Samsung Series 7 NP7005ZA-S0AUS laptop pc. I decided to do a fresh windows install so I used a flash drive to re-install windows (I formatted the hard drive at the begnining of the installation). When the laptop booted first time in the installation process, I got a screen saying boot menu but it's empty. I clicked alt+ctl+de, the laptop restarts and gets me back to the same screen. I entered the bios and made sure the hd is on the top of the list and save/restarted but same issue. I tried loading bios default settings and that did not help either. I noticed in the boot menu that there are exclamation marks next to the HD and the SATA DVD drives, not sure what that means but they were not there before. I honestly think a bios update can do the trick but there is no way to upgrade the bios of a samsung laptop without Windows like my case so I am stuck.
    Any help will be very much appreciated.
    Notice: The hard drive has 8GB msata built in.
     
    more123, May 6, 2020
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