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Gaming Smartphones Tablets Windows 8 PSUs Android Your question Get the answer Tom's Hardware>Forum>Windows 7>Win 7 installation won't let me format new hard drive> Solved Win 7 installation won't let me format new hard drive Tags: Hard Drives Format Windows 7 Last response: 2 December 2012 03:32 in http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/17381-63-installation-format-hard-drive Windows 7 Share Sherrah 24 March 2011 06:12:05 Hi all, So I've assembled a new desktop http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/external-hard-drive-wont-format-help pc with a brand new Western Digital Green 1TB SATA hard drive. BIOS detects the hard drive and I pop in the Windows 7 DVD and go through the installation process until the screen that asks where I want to install Win 7 on the hard drive. I try to format the drive but it gives me an error saying that the drive has to hard drive be in "read-only" mode and that I need to do so. That prevents me from progressing through the installation process. I got no idea what that means and there is no extra pc around to format the new HDD on. Obviously there is no OS installed on the drive so I can format it inside Windows. That HDD is the only hard drive connected to the pc. Specs: AMD Phenom II 1055T, 6 GB RAM, GTX460 HAWK Any help would be hard drive windows appreciated. Thanks, Sherrah More about : win installation format hard drive soundguruman a b $ Windows 7 24 March 2011 18:57:33 Try plugging the drive into another SATA slot on the motherboard. m 0 l aford10 a b $ Windows 7 25 March 2011 02:50:05 Sherrah said:Obviously there is no OS installed on the drive so I can format it inside Windows. That HDD is the only hard drive connected to the pc. I assume that was a typo? With no OS on this drive, and no other drives installed, you should be booting off the Windows 7 disc, to do the format/install process. m 0 l Related resources Won't let me reset or even re-install windows cause my hard drive isn't in GPT format or something - Forum Win10 wont let me install to a fresh hard drive - Forum Hard Drive won't let me Install windows 7 - Tech Support Trying to install vista on new hard drive will not let me format or make partiti - Forum Installed Windows 8 on New Hard Drive, Won't Let Me Activate - Tech Support Can't find your answer ? Ask ! Get the answer ekoostik 25 March 2011 04:13:18 You're situation while trying to install (You cannot format a hard disk partition or partitions.) is described in this KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927520 Give those steps a try. Also, there are others in the forum who ran into this problem such as the follow
The How-To Geek Forums Have Migrated to Discourse How-To Geek Forums / Windows 7 (Solved) - External hard drive won't format HELP (23 posts) Started 4 years ago by feinui Latest reply from feinui Topic Viewed 23804 times 1 2 Next » feinui Posts: 99 This post has been reported. I have an LG external hard drive which I unplugged one day without doing the safe eject. Now it won't work. The computer recognize its existence on the F drive and disk management says the status is healthy (primary partition) But it will not format. Under File system, the drive is described as RAW. I do not need to recover the data but I got it only six months ago and hate to have to throw it away and buy a new one. Any help would be much appreciated. Reports: · Posted 4 years ago Top vistamike Posts: 10945 This post has been reported. Try this, with the drive attached; From command prompt type: Convert f: /FS:NTFS Mike Reports: · Posted 4 years ago Top feinui Posts: 99 This post has been reported. Thanks Mike but the formatting was unsuccessful because it is a RAW volume. I tried doing the formatting from Disk Management but that did not work either. Any thoughts on what else can be done? The status is still marked as healthy Reports: · Posted 4 years ago Top whs Posts: 17584 This post has been reported. Go to Disk Management and delete partition and volume until you have unallocated space.. Then start anew by defining a new simple partition.. Reports: · Posted 4 years ago Top 202d Posts: 127 This post has been reported. take the drive out of the enclosure. get a new enclosure or a USB 'bridge' that reads sATA and try above stuff again. and get a fresh USB cord Reports: · Posted 4 years ago Top feinui Posts: 99 This post has been reported. Thanks WHS. I did that and now, six hours later it says 8% is formatted. Does this sound right to you? Reports: · Posted 4 years ago Top feinui Posts: 99 This post has been reported. Hi 202D - thanks for the suggestion but I am a bit of a novice. What is an enclosure and how do I take the drive out? Is there a link you know that explains these things? Reports: · Posted 4 years ago Top germ-x Posts: 5310 This post has been reported. Did you make the new partition NTFS. @202d, Why would you suggest the Op get a new enclosure? The drive was working. All new USB drives are SATA drives. The original older ones that you purchased just an enclosure you could put an IDE drive in it. Reports: · Posted 4 years ago Top whs Posts: 17584 This post has been reported. 8% in 6 hours does