Help with installing Windows 7 onto NP6165, keep getting an error!

My Sager NP6165 just came in. I specifically went without an optical drive because I knew I could install Windows 7 through my school for free and figured I could use the Windows USB Boot tool thing to do so. Well, turns out I keep getting this error "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition." For the past 12 hours. Jesus.

People online have said many things and I've tried them all, so I'm coming to you guys for help! Any ideas? Here's a list of what I've done:

1) Removed all hard drives except for the one that I'm installing Windows onto (my SSD)
2) Tried installing Windows onto two other HDDs isolated, but same error
3) Removed all USB/memory cards except for the one USB to install Windows
4) Tried formating/partitioning/clean cmd/etc even though the SSD and the HDD are completely new
5) There was stuff online about RAID and I"m not sure what that is, but my plan was just to have one SSD with windows/games and one HDD with movies/documents/etc
6) Went into BIOS and made sure the SSD was first in boot order. Heck I made it second too. Hell I even disabled all other boot categories except for USB and SSD.
7) Installed drivers for the chipset, for the USB, for the SSD, no luck.

I'm at my wits end!

 

point 4: tried formatting/partitioning

did u successfully format and partition the ssd or did u leave it at trying?

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Is it a full version of Windows and not just an upgrade version? I know many schools only have the upgrade version for free.

 

Boot off a Linux Live CD and force reformat the drive (NTFS, Primary) using "cfdisk". Then boot off your USB Windows and install.

Edit: Oh alright without an optical Drive just create a bootable Linux USB stick.

 

You plugged your USB drive into a USB 3.0 port. I had that error when I wasn't paying attention years ago and just got my laptop too Windows does not have native USB 3.0 port, so the installer boots from bios but can't actually install. Make sure you're using one of the non-blue USB 2.0 ports.

 

That was the case with previous computers like your P150HM that used Sandy Bridge CPU, but Ivy Bridge doesnt need drivers. But good suggestion as that was what a lot of people were doing a year ago.

 

Doh, You may be right. I'm just behind the times now. Are you sure that's the case though? It wasn't a limitation of the chipset when that was an issue, it was that Windows 7 doesn't come with baked in USB 3.0 support so all USB 3.0 ports wouldn't work.

Edit: After some brief google searching, I'm going back to my first answer. It is still the case that you cannot install Windows 7 via USB 3.0 as the drivers are not native. The only way to do so is to use WAIK/DISM to add the drivers to your USB and install them at boot. It doesn't matter which chipset you're running, USB 3.0 just doesn't work natively.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2280676
http://superuser.com/questions/278888/how-does-one-install-windows-7-using-usb-3
There are plenty of resources saying the same thing

You may only have luck if you're using SP1 and you have one of the handful of USB 3.0 drivers that came with it.

 

Damn your edit was too fast wanted to say the same like you, that you only have to implent the USB 3.0 Drivers into the USB Stick or copy the Driver Files over to the Stick in a Folder and install it from the Windows Setup within, i did that back then with my old Asus Rampage III Extreme

 

Hopefully that is right and it works. I know that are some notebooks now coming only with USB 3.0 and no 2.0 so that would really mess people up.