Windows 10: Unable to reinstall Windows 10 via bootable USB Disk/Partition Errors?

Hello, everyone!


I've just been given my girlfriend's Notebook to 'have a quick look at some issues'.

I'm not overly competent with Windows, but I can usually help myself. This, however, has me stumped:


Initial Situation:


Apparently, the system had some issues and a recovery was tried but couldn't follow through. Then, a complete reinstallation via a bootable USB device was attempted, but this also didn't work out. This is not an issue of data management. There is no important data left which, given the situation, is a bit of a relief.

Goals:


- To ascertain that the HDD isn't faulty.

- To install Windows 10


Points of trouble:

• Windows Setup cannot complete its installation process. Creating a partition fails after confirming that additional partitions may have to be allocated, the setup seems to fizzle out. Possible solutions tried: Restarting, refreshing 'format' and 'delete' are greyed out. The screen only shows the one build-in disk with entirely unallocated space
• Trying to continuing the setup without setting up partitions fails also, running into error code 0x80300024. Possible solutions tried: see below

From here on, I figured something had gone awry with either old configuration files, corrupted files, partitions, or something related.

• I ran diskpart. Only one harddrive and my usb drive, I muse listed. I tried to partition it [create partition primary], which ran into a data error CRC-check
• Thinking there might've been some old issues with the former installation, I tried to format manually via diskpart, but the [list volume] returned nothing only listing the apparently defunct DVD drive and the USB port.

Thus, I figured there could be an issue with bad sectors or something comparable.

• I ran checkdisk via the command prompt [checkdisk /r /f] which ran into a readonly error. I tried every fix I knew of and one I'd googled checkdisk /r /f /x, diskpart: attributes disk clear readonly, registry: insert StorageDevicePolicies Key into HK_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM.../Control and set WriteProtect to 0.

This didn't fix the issue.
Now I am left with a disk I cannot install Windows on, cannot format, cannot check for errors.

Again, I freely admit that I'm hardly even a layman at solving computer issues. But what little expertise I have has been exhausted.



So, my question is: Is this a hardware issue? Are there other things I can try?

Looking forward to your help. And thanks in advance



~

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