4.This will erase all the data and then you can. 3.Type the following command and hit Enter after each one: diskpart list disk select disk 0 (Note: Change the number 0 according to the disk you want to convert) clean exit. 2.Now on the next screen press Shift + F10 to open Command Prompt.

I have trying to get work for the last few days and I'm at the end of my rope. 1.Boot from installation media and then click Install. All my video files are still as intact as the day I put them on there.Ĭan someone please tell me what exactly does the error message SETUPLDR Couldn’t open drive(0) multi(0) disk(0) rddisk(0) partition(1) mean and how can I get this issue resolved before my sister comes to take back her computer(which is what I’m using right now)? I also connected the TB storage drive just to make sure that it was viable as well and it was. Of course I couldn’t see the drive until I used Seagate DiscWizard to format the drive as a Primary NTFS partition but once that was done the drive was fully viewable. If Windows setup cannot reliably determine which is the boot drive, this error will appear. Her computer which is a Compaq Presario which has SATA capabilities picked on the drive right away. Type the following command and hit Enter each time: diskpart list disk select disk. Press 'Shift+F10' to bring up Command Prompt windows. I thought maybe it was my harddrive, that it was dead as a doornail, so I disconnected it from my MSI motherboard and connected to my sister’s(the one I’m using right now to communicate). And follow the steps here to clean all existing partitions on the target disk using DiskPart clean command: Step 1. Important: note the Disk number (such as Disk 1). Unfortunately that won’t work for me as the ones I mentioned are the only options I have other than disabling it. The properties window shows that the partition table on the drive is MBR. I read in another post a suggestion about setting the SATA controller to ATA and not to ACHI. I went into BIOs and changed the SATA connection to ACHI, then to RAID, then to IDE and neither of those worked because I keep getting the same error message mentioned above. I have been in BIOs screen and have the boot options set up correctlyĪt first I thought I couldn’t install the drive because I the motherboard was confused(for want of a better description) about which harddrive to install the operating system on but after checking the case I remember that I although there was a cable connected to the IDE harddisk, that the other end of the cable WASN’T connected to IDE controller card (in the pci slot). I was attempting to install the operating system on the 500GB Seagate harddrive but keeping getting the following error message: SETUPLDR Couldn’t open drive(0) multi(0) disk(0) rddisk(0) partition(1) #1 Seagate (SATA) 500GB – never been used but is the one I wanted to install OS on. Motherboard(Current & never been used) – MSI_P67A-C43(B)Ĭomputer Model - Generic (built at Computer Convention during June 2001)

Operating System - Windows XP Professional SP2, OEM & Legal(used on old motherboard)

Disk 0 partition 1