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I’m trying to install Windows 10 Home from a USB drive I made that contains the windows installer. However when I try to install it on my 1TB disk, Windows says that it cant. It says that the disk is unallocated, so I tried making a partition but that didn’t work. Using command prompt I tried to scan it using CHKDSK but i cant find the drive number, only the USB stick. But it does show up in diskpart so I’m stuck. How can I get this drive to work?
The disk is present but its partition scheme is incompatible. Old PCs with legacy boot won’t support GPT and new PCs with UEFI only boot won’t support MBR. Solution is simplier than you think, since you don’t have to keep data on disk 0, just diskpart select disk 0 then diskpart clean, this wipes everything including the partition table, then you can actually select the unallocated disk space to install Windows because the installer can choose whatever partition scheme it needs on a totally blank disk. Also I recommend checking in PC bios to move to UEFI boot if it is supported.
