Windows cannot be installed on this disk. The disk may fail soon

Run chkdsk command from Windows 7 installation media.
Press Shift + F10 to open a Command Prompt and reformat disk with Diskpart command while you see the first installer screen.

Reset the BIOS to defaults and make sure there is no setting in the BIOS that prevents writing to the boot sector. Also make sure the BIOS is actually detecting the hard drive correctly


hard drive manufacturer's diagnostic tool.


chkdsk /f /r



at time of windows installation media


Repair your computer

In command prompt type diskpart to enter the utility.

Type select disk # replacing "#" with the drive number of the one you wish to format. To see a list of disks, type list disk.

Type clean. This deletes all volumes from the drive.

Type convert mbr to convert the disk to mbr.

convert gpt to revert back to GPT. (Optional step)



Start DISKPART.

Type LIST DISK and identify your SSD disk number (from 0 to n disks).

Type SELECT DISK <n> where <n> is your SSD disk number.

Type CLEAN

Type CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY

Type ACTIVE

Type FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK

Type ASSIGN

Type EXIT twice (one to get out of DiskPart, the other to exit the command line tool)