windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation Windows 10

windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation Windows 10

This is a real easy fix so you can install Windows without any error during the installation process. The easy way is to unplug any drives that your not installing windows onto and then try to install again, you will need to drive any partitions that you create during that installation process and the install should work this time.

This works on Windows 10, Windows 8 / 8.1, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2012.

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[Semscure]

After literally 10+ hours of troubleshooting, this fixed it. Thank you so much

[kaua_drar]

You posted that 6 years ago, but it still helps me, I love you.

[stefanhoffmann]

READ if the video did NOT HELP you:
I used 3 different USB flash drives with 2 different versions of windows 10 Pro 64-bit and used 1 method as installing the older Win10 as Windows 8 installer from ISO. And on the 2 other drives I used the latest Windows 10 installation version available using the Windows 10 USB installer.

I had 2 different problems. One drive said I needed drivers before I could proceed with installation. The other one was the same as in this video. The problem you are having if the method in the video is not working for you, is that you have multiple partitions on your flash drive. For example, I had Memtest86 installed on the drive and formating the drive did not get rid of the extra partitions. I am currently trying to get this stick back to factory defaults.

The other problem I had with older windows 10 installer was using a USB 2.0 flash drive in a USB 3.0 port on the rear of the motherboard.
Switching the flash drive from the USB 3.0 rear panel port to a USB 2.0 front panel port finally let me through with the installation. It didn't even copy the files in the USB 3.0 port when telling me there's an error with missing drivers.

[meczowa]

I resolved this issue by changing USB boot partition from GPT to MBR. On GPT it was throwing this error every time. I tried to fix using diskpart but no luck so might be worth verifying what is the format on your bootable USB

[mtonkinson]

Unplug the other drives helped me massively (ie, it works now)! I teach computer science for a living and just upgraded the board on my others half computer and was faced with this, not in 20 years of messing with computers has this ever come up lol. Nice one man :)

[rsdntevl]

Unplug the drive? I only have an SSD and my USB stick

[coslub]

Me I just disabled the HDD from bios. Thank you. It worked

[theigpugamer]

"And you would think this would not happen in 2017 anymore"
Me with same issue is 2021 you don't say

[syronbman]

That didn’t work for me however I found another way first I would like to explain the situation I was in when doing this as idk what factors apply to getting it to work my way. 1. I had made a Windows 10 booted on my 16 gb usb. 2. When starting my laptop with it in it gave me the option to run the 64bit windows. 3 . When the new window came up asking me to choose which driver to use what you want to do is pick the the one labelled OS at the end and then format it after that select it again and then go through the process it should work

[younessbarouri]

Worked ! I opened the bottom of the laptop, removed the ssd, Pressed and hold the power button for few second ( just to kinda reset the internal ), then pluged the ssd back . WORKED !

[chazsewell]

I have 3 nvme drives, 🤬 this is a total pain. Had to remove a ridiculous amount of stuff since they are under metal plates. You'd think they'd fix this but now it's been an issue for such a long time.

[mwenn]

Why does this video have so many downvotes? This video was on target, to the point and still valid in 2021.

[brianchambers]

Thank you so much ... I spent many, many hours on this ... removed all other drives etc. and just left the drive that I wanted to install a clean copy of win10 on, however the one thing I didn't do, was to delete the one remaining partition on that drive !! until I watched your tutorial .... "worked a treat" thanks again.

[ashazali]

Hello guys! Following worked for me
1. I setup bios to default (Most probably it doesn't have any effect but that's what I did)
2. I didn't make any partitions. Just go with the whole disk. You can always create volumes latter when windows is up and running.
Good Luck.

[RicardoDirani]

Gosh I can't believe that was it. I often unplug the other drives so Windows don't mess up, but this time I wanted it to recognize the other installations and set up the windows boot loader. It is a new SSD, so I was thinking it was either broken or incompatible with my old motherboard.

But now it's installing and I'm feeling silly for wasting hours and hours trying to make it install.
Thanks man.

[fixitdaz]

Its good to see windows is consistent from version to version. Great Video Bri.

[BluePhoenix]

You are totally right, there is no way this should be happening in 2018. Especially with such an unclear error message.
This video helped me sort it out, thank you!

[hithere]

My lord, it was so late last night as I was trying to get through the install and was wondering if this was the issue. Watching your vid after work today made me finally get off my lazy ass and unplug my other three drives - install worked on the first attempt. Thank you, good sir.

[Nate-qckb]

I'm still fighting this one. I only have the NVME drive (where I want to install windows to) and the USB Install drive and no other drives or storage devices plugged in. Weirdly, it seems by the comments that it works for some people and not for others. I'm not sure what else to try...

[Huntcho]

Just watched your video about using diskpart because windows wanted me to change the partition to GPT, then I had this issue and came upon your video again 😅 video is still helping in 2023.