I have a Asus K42JE laptop and recently installed a new M500 480GB SSD. Since adding the new SSD, I am unable to install windows 8.1 on it. I keep getting the following error
'We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one. For more information, see the setup log files.'
I have tried partitioning/formatting the drive multiple times, made sure no other peripherals/usb drives/SD cards are attached to the laptop other than the bootable USB and done the following in diskpart but it did not help either.
Type LIST DISK
Type SELECT DISK <whatever disk number you have>
Type CLEAN
Type CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
Type ACTIVE
Type FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK
Type ASSIGN
I initially thought there might be something wrong with my SSD so I went ahead and installed Ubuntu on it, which works perfectly fine. Its only Windows 8 that is giving me grief. The SSD is currently has 4 partitions.
Partitions 1 and 3 are for Ubuntu (ext4 and swap respectively) and 2 and 4 are for Windows (both NTFS)
Has anyone got any other tips and tricks that I can try?