Trying to install to a 2 TB clean SATA 6 HD. Created a 300 GB partition with a little space (1 GB) before and lots after. Get this message. Have tried several HDs. This is BIOS drive 0. Thought Sata 6 might require driver, but the Motherboard disk doesn't contain any Sata drivers. This is an ASUSP8Z77-V LE MB. No VDrive, no RAID or nothing like that. BIOS sees drive just fine.

What could be making Win 8 choke on drive 0?

• Edited by Roger Mastrude Tuesday, May 14, 2013 5:09 AM

It could be that you have UEFI boot enabled, but did a BIOS level boot with your install media. Try using the motherboard's boot menu to choose the UEFI option for your install media's boot device. If no option is present, disable UEFI boot in the BIOS. Since you are using a 300GB OS partition, you probably don't need UEFI boot anyways.

• Marked as answer by Roger Mastrude Tuesday, May 14, 2013 10:56 PM

I think your response was astute but not correct. I'm unfamiliar with UEFI so your idea could have been correct. I think the real problem is that the ASUS bios allows for two boot devices, then has a disk priority within each slot. The disk priority was incorrect, and gave priority to a disk other than the one I was trying to install on. I fixed this and the installation is in process now. Your response gave me the winning clue. Thank you.

• Proposed as answer by RJoubert93 Thursday, October 10, 2013 6:29 PM

This is actually the correct answer, It solved the same problem on my Dell XPS 15 when I decided to install a larger mSATA drive and use it as the system device: i had to set the mSATA as the forst boot HD drive to enable installing Windows 8.1 on it. Thank you for your help!

For me, that was the right answer. My mainboard is ASUS P8P67 and I have 3 HDDs and 1 SDD installed on my computer. I wanted to install Windows on my SSD, but Windows installation was getting the error 0x80300024. I went to BIOS and saw that the first boot device is set on CD/DVD drive. It was OK. But the second boot device was set to one of my HDDs. I changed it to SSD and restarted. Then Windows was installed on my PC without any problem.