Windows 10: Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The disk may fail

Discus and support Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The disk may fail in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; So I bought a new WD Black 6TB disk and I decided to reinstall my windows 10 (using a recovery disk) on the new hard drive. However, I tried to do it... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by stavroswtf, Jul 6, 2017.

  1. Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The disk may fail


    So I bought a new WD Black 6TB disk and I decided to reinstall my windows 10 (using a recovery disk) on the new hard drive. However, I tried to do it and the title error came up. I have tried many fixed including formatting the drive, using diskpart e.t.c. I need urgent help.

    :)
     
    stavroswtf, Jul 6, 2017
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  2. Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's bios menu.

    Hi Matthew,

    There are several possible reasons as to why your computer is not detecting an SSD drive. This could be caused by incorrect BIOS settings or device drivers that need to be updated. Since you already tried the suggestion of Andre Da Costa and this allowed
    your computer to detect the SSD already, we would like to further clarify your concern by asking the questions below:

    • If you were already able to install Windows on the SSD, have you already attempted to change the boot order in the BIOS menu?
    • Which version of Windows did you install on the SSD?
    • What other troubleshooting steps have you attempted?

    We look forward to your response to our queries.
     
    Jordan Dom, Jul 6, 2017
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  3. Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's bios menu.

    Have you tried resetting the BIOS defaults then see if that works?

    How to Reset BIOS on a PC or Clear NVRAM on a Mac
     
    Andre Da Costa, Jul 6, 2017
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  4. Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The disk may fail

    Aside from the possibility that the drive is going bad, are you using this as your primary (system) drive? If so, are you converting the drive to use GPT instead of MBR? If not, try that again. In diskpart, with the drive blank, type convert gpt after selecting the drive.

    I would also suggest using a plain vanilla Windows 10 disc, rather than a recovery disc.
     
    DeaconFrost, Jul 6, 2017
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  5. So, I don't know if this is the primary disk, but my older disk has Ubuntu installed right now as installing Ubuntu there was the only way I could get the PC to boot. The disk is already GPT. As for the last thing, what I'd a plain vanilla windows 10 disc. Just for the heads up, while I was waiting for an answer, I but windows 10 in a DVD and tried to install it again but the same problem occurred.
     
    stavroswtf, Jul 6, 2017
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  6. Try downloading an ISO file and burn it to a USB-Driver

    or Create an ISO yourself

    CreateIsoFromCDorDVD - Community Help Wiki
     
    MetalSaint, Jul 7, 2017
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  7. I finally found the problem. The disk is really failing. I installed Windows 10 back to my old disk and then i downloaded crystaldiskinfo and many allocated sectors, it have a ''Seek Time Performance'' threshold right now. So it's leaving me. It's really sad because this is the second WD disk that gets fatal error (at least the first one lasted for about half a year and not 2 days).
     
    stavroswtf, Jul 7, 2017
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  8. Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The disk may fail

    my main HDD is a WD Purple 3TB and its been going for the third year now without any issue, consider check your pc hardware
     
    MetalSaint, Apr 4, 2018
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