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Boot Camp - Setup was unable to create a new system partition....from Windows install

Hi folks. So I ran the boot camp wizard and made a USB install key for windows from that. I boot to it and everything works until I get to the install. I format the Boot Camp partition as indicated in the walkthrough and then I get "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See the Setup log files for more information." from the Windows installer. What do I do? Thanks.

Posted on Aug 13, 2011 7:27 AM

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antoniofromlas vegas

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Posted on Aug 20, 2011 5:49 PM

Same thing happened to me. After repeating the same step many times (and formatting the partition several times) and getting the "Setup was unable to create ..." message over and over again, I decided to abort the install and back out using the back arrow <- (upper left corner of the Windows dialog box). After I got to the first Windows 7 screen, I decided to try the install one more time, and went forward in all the windows. This time it worked!

Remember to select the right partition (in my case disk 0 partition 4). Also, remember since the originally Mac created BootCamp partition was formatted, it will no longer be called BootCamp.

Good luck

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anucha98

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Jan 10, 2017 9:12 AM in response to Md Fadhli

Thanks Fadhli. Try many times until I found your comment..🙂

Feb 14, 2017 5:45 AM in response to Md Fadhli

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Boot Camp - Setup was unable to create a new system partition....from Windows install