Installation of Windows 10 Pro on a new HD issues

I'm not sure about your link so I suggest to Create a USB Installation for Windows 10 on other computer or use Window 10 installation DVD:

Important: the recovery drive or Windows installation DVD will only work if you are using the same operating system architecture on both ( Computer and USB/DVD ) (ex: 64-bit and 64-bit, or 32-bit and 32-bit).

 1- Go to the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool from this link:
      https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
  2- Click on Download tools now
  3- Run the Tools as Administrator
  4- Accept the license
  5- Create Installation Media for another PC
  6- Insert a decent flash drive to usb3 port, at least 8 GB.
  7- Select USB flash drive.
  8- Next and Hit OK.

Note: You need at least 8 GB free space on C: drive ( Windows Drive )

You will have to use either a 8 GB thumb drive or a dual layer DVD which has the 8.5Gb to make a bootable copy.


 How to Install:

 Restart your computer
  go to Bios setup and change Boot Sequence to USB
  Insert your USB in USB Port, Save and Exit setup.

 During the boot process to initiate the Windows 10 install media. Proceed through the screens until you get to the part where it says "Install Now"

Go to Bios
 set your BIOS to AHCI instead of SATA.

try this

dj,

It is already set to that!

Is there any need to reformat the disk. I got it from DELL and it should be just plug and play correct?

The machine may in fact not be Windows 10 compliant so that message may be true.

Try updating BIOS, Chipset and Video drivers. Then try Installing again

Yes in addition to my suggestions for Drivers try reformatting

what is the best free reformatting software out there?

If you can get the Windows 10 disk to start, it can reformat. Windows 7 can format a disk. I commonly do not need to any more.

But I am still so confused with this process:

i got the HD from DELL downloaded the OS and now I tried to play a little with the installation and now when I tried to reformat inside the installation window it says it will not read it? Some write protect is on?

There should not be any write protect on. Check the DELL Support site for Windows 10 compatibility and drivers.

I did a system diagnosis and no HD is showing up. even though it is plugged in correctly.

Try changing the BIOS setting to SATA instead of ACHI.  It may read as "Legacy" or something like that.

I did a system diagnosis and no HD is showing up. even though it is plugged in correctly.  <-- Bad Drive?

See attached pic.
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Either the drive is not good, or the machine is just not compatible.

So here is what I did I upgraded it from Windows 7 to Windows 10 about 8 months ago.

The upgrade was good up until the old HD went bad.

It's entirely possible, as John is pointing to, that the new drive is simply DOA. It's not terribly uncommon to receive a new part that is defective in some way. What I would do is download a bootable HD tester and check the health of the harddrive in question. There are many out there, but two notable free options are the tools in Hiren's Boot CD and Ultimate Boot CD. These may or may not work with your current configuration, but are at least worth giving a shot. I would also call Dell support as was suggested in this thread to report the issue. They may just tell you to RMA the drive.

what disk model is it?
connect it to a working system as 2nd drive, and initialise it, create a partition andtry formatting it,
then retry the installation

Update to the issue. I did call DELL support and they are issuing a new HD to replace the allegedly defective one.

nobus: what do you mean what disk model is it?

just what i said post the disk model

I said here: https:#a42362956 and after that the drive was bad so you should provide some assist points for that.

John is correct in his thinking. installation after a good HD was a piece of cake.