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I have a Fujitsu laptop that I don't USE much. I had Windows 10 installed. I got an ISO file from digital river of Windows 10 to put a fresh install on the computer. After I put the dvd in and when it ask me what drive I WANT the OS on I get the screen saying Setup was unable to create a new SYSTEM partition or locate an existing system partition. The drive I want to put it on is empty. Anyone have any suggestions?I installed Kali Linux on my laptop and I can use it again.OK. So the laptop works good on Linux.
Others have noted that a Linux install can make it hard to install Windows 10. Why? Because all regular versions of Windows will not overwrite a UNIX drive.

The commended way to fix this is as follows:
A. Get a new or used Hard Drive that been set to work with Windows. This is also called MS-DOS mode.
B. Or, get a tolerable CD of the GParted program or any Linux live CD with GParted .
Use it to WIPE or format the drive and set it to MS-DOS mode.

GParted
http://gparted.org/download.php

This is not new information. It was documented elsewhere. Here is a thing on Tom's Hardware about this compatibility issue.
Need to switch a Linux hard drive back to Windows

Hope you understand this.



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