Luckily I remembered to have the ISO of Win7 (which format and install did work on my SSD) still on my external HDD and with the use of an extra laptop I created a Windows 7 USB Boot disc. In this case I just like to stick with Microsoft. On the internet I found a lot of “possible solutions”, but all of them are actually HDD scan tools, or extra HDD format tools and honestly I don’t like solutions where you have to use free-ware tools, make your own bootable USB, then try tool 1, then tool 2, etc etc…. It works for most drives, but can have some issues with some Vortex SSD HDD and some OCZ SSD HDD. Apparently there is something wrong with the Windows 8 format. Maybe it was not the best thing to start this process at 23:30….Īfter some online searching I found more people with this issue with Windows 8 Beta. My hard disc was recognised, so I don’t need drivers, right? Ensure that the disks controller is enabled in the computer’s BIOS menu”. This computer’s hardware may not support booting to this disk. “Windows cannot be installed to this disk. Then I also noticed the following error message: This all went fine, but when I tried to click “Next” to start the installation, I noticed that the “Next” button was greyed-out! Next step is to create a new partition and to format it. I selected my drive and removed the current partition with Windows 7. Then the “dangererous” part… Where do you want to install Windows? Booting from USB was no problem and the installer kicked in quite quickly. Last week I tried to install Windows 8 on my laptop with an OCZ SSD Hard disc.Īfter the necessary backup, I used the Windows 7 USB DVD boot Download tool to create a Windows 8 USB Boot disc.

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