Windows 10: Unable to install windows 10 - couldnt find boot disk

Hey guys!




I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for this, but I'm currently trying out Windows 10, but I'm getting an error which I believe is due to my previous dual-boot consisting of Windows 7 + Antergos w/ Grub. (My friend installed this for me, so I'm not very familiar with this stuff.




Before I began the install, I went to windows disk manager and deleted then extended the partition that had Linux on it. When I went to install Win10, it keeps giving me errors that it could not create a partition and upon further inspection, the specific error is that it could not find the boot drive.




I've been at this for quite a while now, and any help would be appreciated!


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Win 10 repair disk unable to find Win 10 system image backup

The issue is not about installing Windows 10, I've already installed Windows 10.

My question is that after doing a system image backup, and making a Windows 10 bootable repair disk (DVD), after booting with the Windows 10 repair disk, it is unable to find the Windows 10 system image backup I just made. It only shows the Windows 7 image
backups I had made previously.

 

MSI laptop will not start after putting it to hibernate - resolved

Ive again had same situation but couldnt replicate the machine state when i hibernated. So this time i changed the boot bios to legacy and put a windows 10 install disk in. It booted to the disk and i then just restarted and everything was fine again.
Use delete key to get to bios set up... i've now reverted backto uefi boot and removed both the hibernate and sleep options from the power off options.

 

If you deleted the Linux partition w/ Grub, then you can't boot. May have to clean install, or maybe if in Windows, EasyBCD can re-create the boot for you.

 

I've been trying a clean install, but it keeps giving me the boot error. I looked at EasyBCD, but it requires me to have windows on the computer. I've formatted/cleaned it several times, so that does not seem to be possible.

 

Oh,sorry - was under the impression it was an upgrade - did you delete all the partitions shown in the setup dialog then try to install to the unallocated space ? or are you keeping the existing Windows 7?

BTW: Best to delete Linux partitions with GParted or similar.

 

Yup! I deleted all partitions and then formatted, deleted but nothing seemed to work.

 

It's best to delete the partitions and not format - let Windows setup do all that stuff...

 

I've tried going with just deleting and formatting but neither seem to work.

 

What is the exact error? The only time I got that was when I had multiple drives (incl. SD card etc) - removing those solved it.

 

The exact error from the logs is: "GetMachineInfo: Couldn't find boot disk on this BIOS-based computer"

 

OK that's a new one for me - found this Couldn't find Boot disk error while Installing Windows 7 using USB - Page 2 - Windows 7 Help Forums

 

have you tryied to do a diskpart command

 

Yep! Doesn't seem to work though :/

 

have you tried disk part