Installation failed for Windows 10 on XPS8300 device.

F5F Stay Refreshed Hardware Desktop Installation failed for Windows 10 on XPS8300 device.

Gingersplash11
Junior Member

09-05-2016, 01:12 PM

I'm trying to set up Windows 10 on a Dell XPS 8300. It doesn't support UEFI, and I'm using a 500GB Maxtor HDD. No one can explain why this error keeps appearing, even after searching online.

Gingersplash11

09-05-2016, 01:12 PM #1

I'm trying to set up Windows 10 on a Dell XPS 8300. It doesn't support UEFI, and I'm using a 500GB Maxtor HDD. No one can explain why this error keeps appearing, even after searching online.

biricha
Junior Member

09-13-2016, 11:33 AM

Did you form a partition on that storage device? It appears to be empty space that won’t start up. For your system, unallocated space is similar to having no drive connected at all.

biricha

09-13-2016, 11:33 AM #2

Did you form a partition on that storage device? It appears to be empty space that won’t start up. For your system, unallocated space is similar to having no drive connected at all.

KilledBy_Alex
Member

09-15-2016, 09:10 PM

I also did that, encountered the same issue. It was a 50GB partition.

KilledBy_Alex

09-15-2016, 09:10 PM #3

I also did that, encountered the same issue. It was a 50GB partition.

Sivite
Junior Member

09-16-2016, 12:06 AM

The hard drive is set up with MBR formatting. From my experience, Windows 10 doesn't support GPT formats well.

Sivite

09-16-2016, 12:06 AM #4

The hard drive is set up with MBR formatting. From my experience, Windows 10 doesn't support GPT formats well.