Windows operating system is one of the popular systems installed on personal computers; however, the process of installing Windows is not that easy. During installing Windows 10, some users may encounter an error \u201cWe couldn\u2019t create a new partition or locate an existing one. For more information, see the Setup log files.\u201d which stops you from installing Windows 10. In fact, this error can happen to hard drive, USB drive or SSDs; however, fortunately, there are solutions to this problem.![\"We](\"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/we-couldnt-create-a-new-partition.png\")
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\u201cA couple of day ago, I replaced the system drive in my computer with a 120GB SSD. Though the hard drive works well all the time with computer, I wanted to improve the performance as much as possible. After adding the SSD, I decided to make a clean installation of Windows 10 instead of cloning existing system. I downloaded Windows 10 ISO from Microsoft and prepared a bootable USB stick. Then enter BIOS to modify necessary setting so that the computer can boot from the USB drive. <\/em><\/p>\n Everything goes well until the drive selection screen where I selected the SSD to format and create a new partition. I saw an error message \u201cWe couldn\u2019t create a new partition or locate an existing one. For more information, see the Setup log files.\u201d upon clicking the Next button. The installation aborted. Anyone here can help me fix the error?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Important: This solution will delete all files and partitions from the disk which cannot create a new partition, thus is it contains valuable files, make you create a full backup in advance.<\/p>\n Note: the list disk<\/strong> command is used to list all hard drives and USB drives connected to the computer. You should find the disk number that represents your disk and add the number after \u201cselect disk\u201d. Thus you may need to enter select disk 1<\/strong> on your computer based on the actual situation. The command clean<\/strong> deleted all files on the selected disk, so make sure files on that disk have been backed up.<\/p>\n To fix Windows 10 installation error \u201cwe couldn\u2019t create a new partition\u201d, you may need to set the primary partition as active. To do that, we should launch Command Prompt again to run diskpart command. Once you\u2019ve start diskpart, you need to do the following:<\/p>\n If you plan to install Windows 10 to a UEFI-based computer, you should make sure the hard drive is using a GUID partition table \u2013 GPT. You can convert MBR to GPT<\/a> without data loss if the hard drive already stores data. If you are going to install Windows on a new hard drive, you should partition the HDD to GPT.<\/p>\n It is a bit complicated for many users to partition a hard drive with Diskpart command, so we introduce an easier way to partition or repartition hard drive. Here we use Eassos PartitionGuru Free<\/a> to complete the task. This free partition management software can be used under Windows, DOS and WinPE environment. You can connect the tech support to get the PartitionGuru PE Builder which can help you boot to the PE version.<\/p>\n If you get the \u201cWe couldn\u2019t create a new partition\u201d on USB drives, try following solutions to fix it easily.<\/p>\n There might be compatibility problem on some computers\u2019 USB port, then you might encounter the problem, especially when installing Windows 10 from a USB drive and the drive\u2019s interface is USB 3.0. It seems that there are problem with the old USB port. If that is the case, you can try the Windows installation from a USB 2.0 flash drive. Besides, you can also install Windows a bootable DVD.<\/p>\n If the \u201cWe couldn\u2019t create a new partition\u201d error appears when you are installing Windows 10 through a USB flash drive and there are more than one USB drive connecting to your computer. You should remove any additional USB drives such as SD card and external hard drive, leaving the only one Windows 10 USB drive. Apart from that you can also try unplugging the USB drive and inset it to a different USB port. Then try installing system again from the USB stick again.<\/p>\n If you are trying to install a new Windows from USB drive, you might need to set that device as the first boot device in BIOS. However, in some cases, the USB drive might be mistakenly regarded as the hard drive among the installation process. Thus the installer cannot create a new partition on that device. To fix the problem, you have to set your hard disk as the first boot in BIOD boot order.<\/p>\n When that has been done, you can connect the bootable USB drive and reboot computer. Before computer boots into Windows, you should press F10 (it might be F11 or F12 based on the motherboard on your PC), and set the USB drive as the boot device. Save changes and restart computer. Then, the Windows installation process should work without any errors.<\/p>\n Note: steps to change boot order might be different on your PC, for detailed steps, connect the tech support of your motherboard\u2019s manufacturer.<\/p>\n An increasing number of users tend to add an SSD to their computers and install Windows 10 on SSD to improve performance. But some users are troubled by the \u201cwe couldn\u2019t create a new partition or locate an existing one\u201d. To fix the error, you can try following steps:<\/p>\n Alternatively, you can partition the SSD using free partition manager in advance before installing operating system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This post talks about error \u201cWe couldn\u2019t create a new partition or locate an existing one\u201d error that happens to Windows installation, USB drive and SSDs. Multiple solutions are provided to help users fix it safely and easily. 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Solution 1: Fix the issue with Diskpart<\/span><\/h2>\n
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List disk\n\nSelect disk 0\n\nClean\n\nCreate partition primary\n\nActive\n\nFormat fs=ntfs quick\n\nAssign\n\nExit<\/pre>\n
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Solution 2: Set the primary partition as active<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Solution 3: Partition the hard drive to GPT<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/li>\nFix \u201cWe couldn\u2019t create a new partition\u201d on USB drives<\/span><\/h1>\n
Solution 1: Try a USB 2.0 removable drive<\/span><\/h2>\n
Solution 2: Disconnect any additional USB drives<\/span><\/h2>\n
Solution 3: Set hard drive as the first boot device<\/span><\/h2>\n
Fix \u201cWe couldn\u2019t create a new partition\u201d for Windows 10 SSD<\/span><\/h1>\n
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