Henry Starcher
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HP Pavilion Touchsmart 23 hard drive
HP Pavilion Touchsmart 23 All-in-one. Hard drive died and the iindividual doesn't have restore disk. Replaced the drive with smae model drive and size. Using a Windows 8 disk to attemp reinstalling windows we keep getting an error "Windows could not format a partition on disk 0 the error occurred while preparing the partition selected for installation error code 0 lowercase X80070057"
We've tried nurmerous senerios and have Google'd our butts off to no avail. Any suggestions??
We've tried nurmerous senerios and have Google'd our butts off to no avail. Any suggestions??
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If you have a 2nd working PC available, you could try formatting the drive using the 2nd PC first.