{"id":254,"date":"2018-05-04T05:01:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T05:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/?p=254"},"modified":"2018-05-04T05:01:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T05:01:20","slug":"how-to-solve-we-couldnt-create-a-new-partition-error-on-windows-7810","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/how-to-solve-we-couldnt-create-a-new-partition-error-on-windows-7810\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Solve \u201cWe couldn\u2019t create a new partition\u201d Error on Windows 7,8,10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-255 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Partition-Error.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Partition-Error.jpg 641w, https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Partition-Error-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 462px) 85vw, 462px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Windows 10 is one of the most popular Operating systems from Microsoft. Upon its release, it got a positive response from users across the world and they were impressed with new features that were added from its predecessor, Windows 8.<\/p>\n<p>Installing an Operating system is pretty simple. Insert your bootable drive containing Windows 10 into your system. Follow the wizard for the complete installation process. During the installation, Windows 10 prompts you to select a partition. On most days, installation completes without any glitches.<\/p>\n<p>There are times, however, when you get an error message <strong><em>\u201cWe couldn\u2019t create a new partition or locate an existing one\u201d.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you encountered this error when trying to install Windows 7, 8 or 10, read on for the solutions to fix this error.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Disconnect all your additional hard drives<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Disconnect all hard drives except your primary hard drive where Windows is installed.<\/li>\n<li>After disconnection, try installing Windows again and see if you can go ahead with the normal installation process.<\/li>\n<li>If there are other drives such as your USB drives or memory cards that are connected to the system, Windows might confuse these drives for regular hard drives. Disconnect these drives as well and try to install Windows again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong>Make the Partition active<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In order to fix the above error, you should set the desired partition as primary. In fact, the partition you are trying to install Windows on, might not be active.<\/p>\n<p>The partition can be made active using a diskpart tool.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Insert bootable drive containing Windows 10 to your system.<\/li>\n<li>On the installation screen, click <strong>Repair your computer.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Now click <strong>Troubleshooting -&gt; Advanced Tools -&gt; Command Prompt<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Once Command Prompt window opens, type <strong>diskpart<\/strong> and hit enter.<\/li>\n<li>Diskpart utility now opens to make the partition active.<\/li>\n<li>Type <strong>list disk<\/strong> to list all the disks on your system.<\/li>\n<li>Now select the disk where you want to install Windows in.<\/li>\n<li>If the disk number is 0, type <strong>select disk 0 <\/strong>to select the disk.<\/li>\n<li>Type <strong>clean<\/strong> and hit Enter to clean the selected disk.<\/li>\n<li>Type <strong>create partition primary<\/strong> to make the disk primary.<\/li>\n<li>Now type <strong>active<\/strong> to activate the partition.<\/li>\n<li>Once the partition is active, type <strong>format fs NTFS quick <\/strong>to format in NTFS file system.<\/li>\n<li>Type <strong>assign<\/strong> and hit Enter to assign the disk.<\/li>\n<li>Type <strong>exit<\/strong> twice to close diskpart utility and command prompt.<\/li>\n<li>Once Command prompt is closed, restart your system and try installing Windows again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><strong>Set your hard drive as the first boot device<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you intend to install Windows from your USB drive, you should set it as the first boot device in BIOS.<\/p>\n<p>During installation of your Operating system, Windows can mistakenly identify your USB drive as a hard drive. To overcome this, just set your hard drive as first boot device from BIOS.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After selecting your hard drive as the first boot device, connect your bootable USB flash drive and restart your system.<\/li>\n<li>While the computer is booting, press F10, F11 OR F12 repeatedly and select your USB drive as a boot device.<\/li>\n<li>Now the installation process should proceed without any hassles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><strong>Convert partition to GPT format<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You can solve the above error by converting your MBR (Master Boot Record) partition to GPT (GUID Partition Table).<\/p>\n<p>MBR partitions only work with drives that are less than 2 TB in size.<\/p>\n<p>GPT doesn\u2019t have any limitations. Note that conversion of MBR to GPT will erase all your data. Take a backup before going for this conversion.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Click on <strong>Windows<\/strong> Type <strong>command prompt<\/strong> in the search bar and hit Enter.<\/li>\n<li>Now type <strong>diskpart<\/strong> and hit Enter<\/li>\n<li>Type <strong>list disk<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Enter <strong>select disk Y<\/strong>. You can replace Y with the number that matches your hard drive. Be careful to select the right drive.<\/li>\n<li>Type <strong>clean<\/strong> and hit Enter. This process clears your hard drive of all data.<\/li>\n<li>Type <strong>convert gpt<\/strong> and hit Enter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Recover data using Hi5 Partition Recovery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you lost data by mistake or during conversion from one file system to another, you can recover it using Hi5 Partition Recovery software.<\/p>\n<p>If your partition was unallocated when trying to install your Operating system, there is no need to worry. Hi5 Partition Recovery tool shows you in few simple steps on how to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/windows\/recover-data-from-unallocated-hard-drive-on-windows-10.html\">restore unallocated partition<\/a> on your system.<\/p>\n<p>It supports recovery from all kinds of hard drives and arrays. You can also recover data after formatting your drive to a different partition. The data recovery tool also performs lost or deleted partition recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The user interface is pretty easy to use, enabling you to recover data by following some simple steps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 10 is one of the most popular Operating systems from Microsoft. Upon its release, it got a positive response from users across the world and they were impressed with new features that were added from its predecessor, Windows 8. Installing an Operating system is pretty simple. Insert your bootable drive containing Windows 10 into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/how-to-solve-we-couldnt-create-a-new-partition-error-on-windows-7810\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Solve \u201cWe couldn\u2019t create a new partition\u201d Error on Windows 7,8,10&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}