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I can't install windows 8.1 on fresh clean hard drive.

In fresh install if I am selecting empty space to install Windows to, it starts installing, goes to 27% and fails with error 0x80070570 (unable to install file).

If in fresh install, I am selecting "Create" option to create partition first, it creates either up to 4 partitions (number is unpredictable) and I am able to continue.

In this case it goes to random percentage and stops with error message about NTFS, without a number.

If I reboot after that and try to install again, it says at the very beginning, that install is impossible because selected drive contains MBR partitions. And that in EFI Windows it is possible to install only on GPT disk.

What is this stuff?

I found some strange options in BIOS, concerning Windows 8 played with them and which may be affect the number of service partitions created.

May be there is some setting, preventing from install?

Windows 7 was installed ok on this same machine.

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  • How to fix/catch it?
    – Dims
    Commented Mar 30, 2014 at 16:22

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Once it finally came to finish but after boot it appeared written on desktop that SecureBoot configured wrongly

Install the latest Windows Update for Windows 8.1. This message was removed with Update KB2887595 (November Update Rollup).

This update package fixes the issues that are documented in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) articles:

2902864 Update removes the "Windows 8.1 SecureBoot isn't configured correctly" watermark in Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2

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  • This is the correct answer disregard my previous comment
    – Ramhound
    Commented Mar 30, 2014 at 17:11
  • Yes, this message disappeared after updates and probably unrelated with previous problems.
    – Dims
    Commented Mar 30, 2014 at 17:14
  • I think it works now. Do you want speculation why it now worked?
    – magicandre1981
    Commented Mar 31, 2014 at 4:18

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