Losing will to live.Cant reinstall windows HP Envy 6-1006ea Please help. :)

HP Envy 6-10006ea

Ok, sufficed to say I am not a novice at this but Ive been trawling the net for two days for solutions and this forum is the best resource Ive come across.

Basically I`m trying to re-install windows, a fresh vanilla copy, not from factory disks. Ive got the ISO created on a Kingston USB stick, Ive tested it on another laptop and the install went fine.

I plug it in to the USB 3 socket and run, we get in to windows install, I can see the hard drives, i can format it, create a new partition etc but i cannot install to it. I get the message of "setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition" even though there is clearly a partition there.

If I boot the installer from the USB 2.0 sockets on the left, I get into the installer and windows cant see the hard drive and is requesting additional drivers, none of which I have been able to find.

Ordinarily I would go in to the bios and play with ahci / IDE settings but there is no access to this on the bios. I saw a post on here talking about removing the 32 gig SSD msata drive but this model doesn't have such a device.

Looking forward to any suggestions.

Thanks.

 

I had a problem like this before on another laptop. What I ended up doing was just replacing the whole hard drive and it worked fine. I just figured it was a small section gone wrong on the hard drive which was screwing the rest of it up.