On the repair options screen, you will see an option to open Command Prompt. Download the Media Creation Tool from Microsoft’s website, and use it to create a USB disk to install Windows 10 on a different system.Ĭonnect the USB to your laptop and click the ‘Repair this computer’ option when you see it. It’s pretty easy to but you will need access to a working PC to do this. You’re going to need to create installation media for Windows 10. If that’s the case, try the second method. Of course, this is a very long shot and even if you have one of those old disks lying around, they may no longer work or your system might not have an optical drive. If you happen to have one of those CDs lying around and your system has a DVD or CD drive, you can use it and it will set up the hard drive for you as part of the installation. If you plan on installing a Linux distribution, check out our guide for partitioning a hard drive on Linux.Ī few years ago, before Windows 10 was developed and Windows 7 was the popular version of Windows the OS was installed via an installation disk i.e. With that in mind, there are two ways to set up a hard drive. Even if you aren’t trying to install Windows, these methods will still work but you’ll need to installation media for Windows. There are multiple ways to set up a hard drive for installing Windows 10 however, we’re assuming that you have a hard drive with no OS installed and you’re trying to install Windows. If you’ve done that, you will have to set up the hard drive again before you can install Windows 10. You can do a fresh install of Windows over and over, and you will never have to set up the hard drive again, unless you accidentally or purposely change the partitions. This is something that you normally only have to do once. For one, the system’s hard drive or SSD has been set up. When you buy a desktop or laptop that comes with Windows 10, or any other version of Windows pre-installed a lot more goes into setting it up a part from installing the OS.
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