Installation error Win 10 Pro 21H1 into GPT Partition
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 5:36 am
G'day Folks,
I have this monster of a Workstation System in a Tower case.
The Motherboard is a ASRock X79 Extreme6 on which I have a Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v2 @ 2.70GHz, 2701 Mhz, 12 Core(s), 24 Logical Processor(s) mounted with 64.0 GB Physical Memory and the Graphic card is a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960.
I then have a special "8 Channels PCI-Express Serial ATA III Host Controller Card in a PCI-Express slot, which enables me to have more than the default SATA devices and I have 2 Optical Drives both LG Blu-Ray Disc BD Rewriter MDisk and 10 HDD WD Red (WD8003FFBX) SATA 8Gb/s 8TB capacity each (= 80TB storage capacity) mounted in 2 cages 5 HDD in each - All this installed in a Lian-Li Tower Case.
I have installed the Terabyteunlimited BootIt UEFI 1.27 boot Manager to then enable me to install more than 4 Operating systems, actually up to 32 if I wanted which I don't and only want to install about 12 all together.
Current OS's installed on the 1st HDD obviously each in their own Partition - Win 7 Pro / Win 8.1 / and Win 10 Pro, all in GPT partitions.
The disk on which they are installed is a GPT format structure as are all the other HDD's
Now to the problem:
I want to install a fresh copy of Win 10 Pro in a new partition 2TB in size (formatted) with nothing on it.
I have booted with the UEFI parameters and selected the UEFI Optical option in which the Win 10 Pro 21H1 is mounted (Downloaded from Microsoft).
Now booting from the Optical drive and going through the instructions and finally selecting the @ TB partition I then get the message;
"Setup was unable to use the existing partition because the system volume does not contain the required free space"
Obviously I have checked the BIOS setting and all, I think, others that might impede me with the installation and have tried different installation parameters but alas all end up with the same error message.
Help please;
Anyone have any ideas as o what maybe my issue?
- and what the fix is for it please?
Regards
Roger Hass / PC-Bug Fixer now in Tanilba Bay NSW 2319 Australia
I have this monster of a Workstation System in a Tower case.
The Motherboard is a ASRock X79 Extreme6 on which I have a Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v2 @ 2.70GHz, 2701 Mhz, 12 Core(s), 24 Logical Processor(s) mounted with 64.0 GB Physical Memory and the Graphic card is a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960.
I then have a special "8 Channels PCI-Express Serial ATA III Host Controller Card in a PCI-Express slot, which enables me to have more than the default SATA devices and I have 2 Optical Drives both LG Blu-Ray Disc BD Rewriter MDisk and 10 HDD WD Red (WD8003FFBX) SATA 8Gb/s 8TB capacity each (= 80TB storage capacity) mounted in 2 cages 5 HDD in each - All this installed in a Lian-Li Tower Case.
I have installed the Terabyteunlimited BootIt UEFI 1.27 boot Manager to then enable me to install more than 4 Operating systems, actually up to 32 if I wanted which I don't and only want to install about 12 all together.
Current OS's installed on the 1st HDD obviously each in their own Partition - Win 7 Pro / Win 8.1 / and Win 10 Pro, all in GPT partitions.
The disk on which they are installed is a GPT format structure as are all the other HDD's
Now to the problem:
I want to install a fresh copy of Win 10 Pro in a new partition 2TB in size (formatted) with nothing on it.
I have booted with the UEFI parameters and selected the UEFI Optical option in which the Win 10 Pro 21H1 is mounted (Downloaded from Microsoft).
Now booting from the Optical drive and going through the instructions and finally selecting the @ TB partition I then get the message;
"Setup was unable to use the existing partition because the system volume does not contain the required free space"
Obviously I have checked the BIOS setting and all, I think, others that might impede me with the installation and have tried different installation parameters but alas all end up with the same error message.
Help please;
Anyone have any ideas as o what maybe my issue?
- and what the fix is for it please?
Regards
Roger Hass / PC-Bug Fixer now in Tanilba Bay NSW 2319 Australia