I had windows 8 preview installed and decided to do a clean install with it using a usb. Wiped the drive completely and now neither Windows 7 nor Windows 8 will install on the drive. They can see the disk and can format and create a partition on in but keeps giving an error when I go to next. Error "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition" I have the second drive removed temporarily till I have an install as i have 2 much data on it to compromise. The worst thing is that I have backup images of that disk (win7 and (win7 upgrade to win8) versions) on a removeable drive but trueimage wont even load for me to do a restore of the image. Is there any particular drivers i can load at the partitioning part of installing windows that can sort this issue Cant find the dell restore disk I would like to know how to do this in the future is the drives have to be replaced and i dont have access to the dell restore cd This is the first time I have ever come across this issue with any operating system in 12 years of messing about :(