Windows cannot be installed to this disk, this disk may fail soon.

[The Chicagoan]

So when install Windows 10 via USB to my second computer I have an issue, it says on the bottom that Windows can't be installed on drive0 partition 4. And that's the hard drive I am trying to install it on, I don't currently have a hard drive that I can use other then this one. All my main HDD's and SSD's are in my main rig. So what do I do? When it's almost done installing it gives me an error. Is there any way to bypass this? Or should I try formatting the recovery partition and installing it there?

[Sapph]

If it says it might fail soon, you should just forget about it and get a new HDD/SSD.

[Revelene]

Sounds like you have a drive that already has an OS and has been partitioned already.

To be able to install Windows, delete the partitions. The install will create new partitions as part of the install process.

Remember, back up your data, if you have anything you want to keep on that drive.

[The Chicagoan]

Originally posted by Revelene:

Sounds like you have a drive that already has an OS and has been partitioned already.

To be able to install Windows, delete the partitions. The install will create new partitions as part of the install process.

Remember, back up your data, if you have anything you want to keep on that drive.

I've already formatted and deleted and recreated the partition, but it does have a recovery partiton.. Should I delete that? Will that possibly allow me to install Windows?

[anrkyuk]

Chances are bad sectors were detected during install, you could check the drive manufacturers suport section on their site for diagnostic tools (every manufacturer has their own tools). You could then hook the drive up to your main rig and run the diagnostic to find the exact problem.

If it is bad sectors, the drive is junk as once one rears its ugly head, they tend to spread exponentially.

[The Chicagoan]

Originally posted by anrkyuk:

Chances are bad sectors were detected during install, you could check the drive manufacturers suport section on their site for diagnostic tools (every manufacturer has their own tools). You could then hook the drive up to your main rig and run the diagnostic to find the exact problem.

If it is bad sectors, the drive is junk as once one rears its ugly head, they tend to spread exponentially.

If I do remember correctly, that may have been the hard drive that actually failed on me... But I have so many hard drives I mixed them all up and I can't remember which one doesn't work and which one works.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

The Disk is failing; replace it; done

Mark your drives using something like painters tape, and then write on it with perm-marker

[TehSpoopyKitteh]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

The Disk is failing; replace it; done

Mark your drives using something like painters tape, and then write on it with perm-marker

100% this. TBH it is not worth the trouble of trying to install an OS on the hard disk in question. FInd a replacement PDQ.

[MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™]

120gb ssd's were on sale for 20 dollars the other day, 480 for $56, might as well just replace it
at these prices
but if you really wanted to force the issue, run spinrite(included on some live cd's of dubious origin like falcon 4 or whatever) and hammer the drive into health a scan to force some sector reallocations if possible. But this will probably take long enough for the new drive to arrive in the mail regardless.

[Revelene]

Originally posted by The Chicagoan:

Originally posted by Revelene:

Sounds like you have a drive that already has an OS and has been partitioned already.

To be able to install Windows, delete the partitions. The install will create new partitions as part of the install process.

Remember, back up your data, if you have anything you want to keep on that drive.

I've already formatted and deleted and recreated the partition, but it does have a recovery partiton.. Should I delete that? Will that possibly allow me to install Windows?

You don't need any partitions. The install process does it for you.

As far as it erroring out, you can try again with no partitions. If it keeps doing it, then it is most likely hardware failure.

Doesn't hurt to try, though.

[The Chicagoan]

Originally posted by MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™:

120gb ssd's were on sale for 20 dollars the other day, 480 for $56, might as well just replace it
at these prices
but if you really wanted to force the issue, run spinrite(included on some live cd's of dubious origin like falcon 4 or whatever) and hammer the drive into health a scan to force some sector reallocations if possible. But this will probably take long enough for the new drive to arrive in the mail regardless.

The thing that sucks is I took 2 weeks off from work because I injured my back, so I can't really buy anything until I start working again because I still need to pay for gas and other things for my car, like new tires. So as much as I'd love to buy an SSD that won't be possible until the end of this month.

[MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™]

Originally posted by The Chicagoan:

Originally posted by MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™:

120gb ssd's were on sale for 20 dollars the other day, 480 for $56, might as well just replace it
at these prices
but if you really wanted to force the issue, run spinrite(included on some live cd's of dubious origin like falcon 4 or whatever) and hammer the drive into health a scan to force some sector reallocations if possible. But this will probably take long enough for the new drive to arrive in the mail regardless.

The thing that sucks is I took 2 weeks off from work because I injured my back, so I can't really buy anything until I start working again because I still need to pay for gas and other things for my car, like new tires. So as much as I'd love to buy an SSD that won't be possible until the end of this month.

Guess its live cd then, hammer the drive with one of the higher level scans to force it to read/write all sectors and reallocate any dubious ones, because drives only do this on writes, may salvage the drive.

I think spinrite was only included on falcon four 4.5 and before bcd btw
Probably out there in torrent land.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

You can mark off bad sectors; however if the SMART table says the drive life % is bad; then Windows OS will refuse to install to it.

If you must wait to buy a new drive and have no other drives to use atm; go onto a working system and create a USB Flash Drive w/ a Linux Live; this will be a bootable OS you can run off of in the mean time.

[MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™]

Yea i forgot about the life stat, might not work, oh well.