Windows 10: Unable to start setup.exe after creating an installation media.

Hello, I want to open the setup.exe program that is made after creating a windows 10 media creation tool. When I open it, the Windows logo appears then disappears and nothing happens. My cpu: AMD ryzen 3 3250U with radeon graphics.

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Win7 install, setup was unable to create a new sys partiton...

Full error: Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See the setup log files for more information.

My drive setup is as follows:

Drive 0 200gb, trying to install win 7 on this one. This was installed into the computer recently.

Drive 1 Total 250GB. Has ubuntu installed
Partition 1 Primary: 140gb, ext3
Partition 2 Logical, 91gb ext3
Partition 3 logical 3.9GB, swap

Both drives are sata, Drive 0 is first to boot from i believe. Anyway, i had an 80gb drive originally that failed, when i removed that I rebuilt grub on ubuntu to just recognize ubuntu and its own drive (drive 1). Thereafter I stuck Drive 0 in, and tried to install Win7 on it, and got the above error. I disconnected my ubuntu drive, and the error is still present. Heading home from work now, but pile on the suggestions. Ill try them tomorrow.

 

Installation media boots to command prompt

I've just booted from known working install media to see exactly what it does when booting. The sequence of events is...

1. Windows logo on a black screen
2. circling dots appear beneath the logo
3. light blue 'Please wait' screen with circling dots
4. a command prompt window (very briefly)
5. the initial Setup page appears

Do you see steps 1-3? If so, it appears you have stopped at step 4, suggesting that something on the disc cannot be read.

Does the disc boot properly in another machine? If so, try cleaning the laptop's drive lens then try booting from the disc again.

If not, make new install media with Microsoft's Media Creation Tool, either as a bootable USB, on an ISO that you can burn to another disc. At Step 8 in Option One of this tutorial you can choose between making a USB or an ISO.

Download Windows 10 ISO File

 

Unable to create Windows 10 bootable media using media creation tool

Hi,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



We understand your concern, as you are trying to create a Windows 10 USB bootable media for your new computer and we appreciate you for providing us the information and the screenshot. In order to get clarity and to assist you accordingly,
please reply with the answers to the questions below.

• What is the free space on the USB?
  
• Are you trying to perform a clean installation or an upgrade on the new computer?
  

However, we would suggest you to refer the steps point by point as mentioned under
“Using the tool to create installation media (USB flash drive, DVD, or ISO file) to install Windows 10 on a different PC”,
in this website:
Download Windows 10 and check if you are able to create the bootable media.



We await your response.



Aditya Roy

Microsoft Community – Moderator