I am trying to install Windows 7 from a bootable USB drive. I encountered the following error after selecting the partition to install Windows on:
Setup was unable to create a system partition or locate an existing partition [...]
I cleaned all partitions, created a partition and formatted it but I still get the same error. Then I checked the logs at X:\Windows\panther\setupact.log (what a stupid directory!) and at the bottom it said along the lines,
[...] The selected disk is not the computer's boot disk.
Indeed, when I checked in diskpart, by det disk it showed me the attributes of the disk, and Boot Disk has the value "No". I think, if I can set it to "yes", then my problem will be resolved. I will also note that my partition was marked "active" when I was doing all of this.
However diskpart has no option to set the boot flag. How can I fix this problem?
