Windows 10: Windows 11 setup "searching for disks"

Hello. I am trying to do a fresh install of windows 11 to a new hard drive. I am using a bootable USB to do such. When trying to install i get past the licensing agreement and my computer begins to "search for disks" it has been on this screen for several hours.Furthermore when I try to use the bootable USB to enter windows recovery environment I am unable to. I select "repair my pc" it just sits there loading. It has been sitting there for over an hour. I am doing that to detect whether or not my machine can detect the hard drive.

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Edge Search Does Not Permit Change of Region


I got these suggestions from the Microsoft Community forum.No. 1 worked for me:

Thank you for posting the query on Microsoft Community. I am glad to assist you on this.
We have reproduce the issue here and we are able to access non-regional search for google using Microsoft Edge.
I would suggest you to try the below steps and check if it helps.
Step 1:
Clear browsing data option of Microsoft Edge and check if you face the issue. To do so perform the steps below.

1. Click on the More actions icon next to the feedback icon present on top right corner of the Project Spartan homepage.
2. Select Settings and click on Choose what to clear.
3. Check the boxes Browsing history, Cookies and saved website data and Cached data and files and click on Clear.

Step 2:
I suggest you to create a new user account and check if the issue occurs.

1. Go to Settings.
2. Choose Accounts and then select Family and other users.
3. Select add someone else on this PC.
4. Enter a user name and hit next.
5. Click on Finish.
6. Sign out from the current Account and Log into the new account.

Step 3:
It could also happen because of network issue. I suggest you to try with different network connection and check if it helps.

 

Windows 11 setup error 0x80070002 0x4001E and installation assistant error 0x00000f0

Create a Windows 11 USB setup disk using the Media Creation Tool and boot from the USB setup disk to access Windows RE.

• How to create bootable Windows 11 USB install media
  

• See #5 in this article How to access Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE)
  

Please post back after you enter the WinRE Command Prompt.

 

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