Windows 10: partitions out of order, do you want to install anyway?

I Can't install windows on disk "Windows cannot be installed on this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table."

I was getting that and realized I had to delete partition fOR the usb windows 10 pro install to even work, which I'd forgotten after many years.

So I deleted partition, rebooted and started usb windows 10 pro install again, thought all was GOOD. SO SICK of this :


So all did look good,so I got as far as the setup formatting? , hit apply, It thought for a bit and said,can't proceed basically because the partitons were out of order ??


I was SO close,,why does,after years, windows installer give us SUCH cryptic, unsolvable errors? It's not like Microsoft hasnt had time to fix these things.


It should NOT be this hard people.


So is it safe to proceed no matter the out of order partitions ? I've never had such issues before, first ssd was PNY, then I went with a faster, seemingly high quality high warranty Crucial 500gb drive. Had no idea I'd have such issues.


I have ,Recovery, 100mb something else and main 496gb partition, before deleting all but the 100mb one,is it safe to delete all , will that fix the partitions out of order error?


HELP ; Want to install new ssd and get on with life ;


Thx anyone;0-

:)

 

W7 Hard drive partition issue

to get rid of that 100 meg windows partition that setup creates for you on a new install on a blank hdd:

- press shift+f10 when on the partition management screen in setup <-- this opens a command prompt
- diskpart <-- start the windows command line partition management tool
- list disk <--- list the installed hdds in this computer for the next step
- select disk 0 <- might have to replace 0 with the number of the correct disk
- clean <-- this will erase all data on the disk you selected one step up- dont use the wrong disk!
- create partition primary <- creates a primary partition taking up all space on the drive, adjust the command if necessary
- exit, exit to exit diskpart and the command prompt
- click refresh in partition manager and select your newly created partition and install to that

 

Vista Beta 2 Installed

Well first I defragged the drive, then go into partition magic and select "create a new partition" and make sure it is "after c:"

Then click the rest of the way through the menus, and in the lower left there is a list of pending activites and click "apply" and you will have to restart and before windows boots partition magic does its thing.

 

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