Windows: Windows is unable to install to the selected location. Error: 0x80300001
by Ali on Aug.22, 2009, under Windows
Well… all these years of development and Microsoft still can’t get the installation part right. Not too surprising… huh?
If you have a storage controller or using motherboard RAID, it’s quite possible that you see this error message after loading the drivers. This could happen on systems with a single CD drive and It’s also likely to happen if you are installing storage drivers from a USB flash drive.
If your driver CD is still in the drive (or USB drive) and Windows CD out on your desk, you won’t be notified properly. Instead, you will see the above error message which was very frustrating in my case. Remember to replace the driver CD with Windows, wait until you hear it spin and then you will notice the Next button is no longer grayed out. It is not safe to assume that Windows would give you a hint. I wonder how much the missing error message was going to cost Microsoft that they decided not to add it.
Frustrating… very unprofessional of Microsoft to say the least.
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October 16th, 2009 on 2:53 PM
I have tried everything and then I tried this for my Dell XPS-M1730 laptop and it worked like a charm. I agree with you Dell should have put a pop up windows saying put back your windows cd because it slipped my mind that I changed them and totally forgot. Thanks again
November 1st, 2009 on 1:18 AM
Wow…. this stupid error had me totally stumped….. Thanks for the info guys! You saved me more wasted time and aggravation!
November 11th, 2009 on 4:33 AM
Thank you for saving me a bunch of time and hair pulling. You are right. Very unprofessional of Microsoft. For all the attention to detail in 7/R2, they sure missed a few things.
November 14th, 2009 on 6:35 AM
X3 who woulda thunk once I put the CD back in that error would have vanished.
thanks for making this post.
December 13th, 2009 on 5:10 PM
I have been battleing with this ALL day. You really saved my butt on this one.
I was about to turn an Alienware laptop into a UFO.
January 30th, 2010 on 6:18 PM
Dude, thanks for the info. Was stuck here until I found your hint. Strange bug in windows 7 installer !
March 27th, 2010 on 1:21 AM
Thank you. I’ve dealt with this for 6 g** d*** hours! =)
May 10th, 2010 on 3:41 PM
Windows Server 2008 R2 has this same problem.
When I say this post I went back and re-inserted the DVD and BANG … next button no longer greyed out …
1 day I lost with this ….
Thanks
August 24th, 2010 on 8:18 PM
Wow. Thanks for the info. What a stupid error. I did have to hit the refresh button after putting the install dvd back in.
September 17th, 2010 on 11:42 AM
I have to agree with the author of this thread. I wasted way to much time of this extremely simple and highly confusing situation. I cannot believe the only problem I was experiencing was that the driver disk was still in the machine. I put the Win7 disk back in and no problems from that point forward. Many people at Microsoft must have been sleeping on the job for this mistake!!! Grrrr
October 6th, 2010 on 9:49 AM
Thanks for this guys, Microsoft never fail to amaze me with stuff like this!
October 12th, 2010 on 5:23 PM
Oh My Gosh, what a stupid error message. Thanks for clearing that up! Glad I only spent 2 mins before searching online!
November 18th, 2010 on 4:45 AM
Thanx alot for the info, got me very frustrade for about 5 minutes before I googled it up… It’s for a 2008 R2. The none R2 version of 2008 and does not have this issue.
November 28th, 2010 on 7:41 PM
But what if you just flashed the bios and installed a new version. i got his error installing all windows. when installing windows vista it gave me the above error. how can i fix that wrong.
November 29th, 2010 on 4:56 PM
You probably need to check your boot volume and make sure your system is able to boot from that partition.
December 13th, 2010 on 7:08 PM
Thanks for info!
Saved me bunch of time as I was thinking my controller is too old.
Horrible error reporting…
Cheers!
January 6th, 2011 on 2:06 PM
man you saved my life !!!! thank you
April 22nd, 2011 on 1:32 AM
Micro (small) soft (limp) well that says it all!
June 11th, 2011 on 6:34 PM
OK, I feel stewpud for not catching this myself, but thank you very much!
June 17th, 2011 on 8:28 AM
Yes, OK i was the stupid plumb who left the DVD in the reader, but come on M$ this is very basic stuff. You wonder why so many people use Apple products…
IF DVD=[WrongOne] THEN
MsgBox ( “Oi mate change the DVD for the correct one, you call yourself an IT Expert?!)
End IF
Not
IF DVD=[WrongOne] THEN
MsgBox ( 0x0Random useless code”)
End IF
June 29th, 2011 on 2:32 PM
You are GOD.
Better than ERROR 8x3000000xxx or such like!!! MS be ashamed.
June 29th, 2011 on 2:36 PM
🙂
October 12th, 2011 on 12:42 PM
Thank you very much… I wasted a lot of time with this error and was looking for an Raid error… THX
October 14th, 2011 on 4:40 AM
Jesus, my first server installation and got this error. haha feel stupid, but thanks for this, now installing 🙂
October 16th, 2011 on 8:47 PM
thanks for posting.
microsoft software quality is so poor these days, its hard to trust anything they do
December 26th, 2011 on 6:45 AM
Still cant get it to work. got the error no matter what i do. i am running install from usb since i aint got no cdrom atm. Tryed linux install to format and re partition, but got no further
January 11th, 2012 on 9:48 PM
Pull the USB drive as directed.
January 1st, 2012 on 11:33 PM
You just saved me a ton of time tonight! Thanks!
January 9th, 2012 on 4:00 PM
Awesome!
Google got me to you, and this was my exact problem.
I put in the Windows 7 installation disk, and vola it worked!
February 18th, 2012 on 10:59 AM
Thanks Dude, Just busted my nuts on a SBS 2011 server on HP ML150 G6 with same error for 2 hours. With drivers on USB and Win CD in ROM installed fine. Thanks for the post!
May 16th, 2012 on 8:45 AM
I was loading storage drivers for a Cisco UCS chassis and installing windows on some LUN’s on the SAN and thought there was an issue with my storage driver or the LUN’s. I tried looking up the error on Microsoft’s site and got nothing useful other than their usual garbage docs. Googled the error message and got this VERY USEFUL blog post.
This is a catastrophic usability bug and makes it painfully apparent that Microsoft does not QA their installers at all. Instead of providing some cryptic error message how about “unable to read installer media”.
May 23rd, 2012 on 2:56 PM
Classic .. same issue here! Windows 2008 R2 with a Qlogic controller that needed drivers during installation. Thankfully didn’t waist too much time finding this post.
July 23rd, 2012 on 5:29 PM
Thanks dude, you saved my live, I was about to throw that machine out of the window
September 27th, 2012 on 1:17 AM
someone pls help, I have done everything out here , I am installing vista 32 bit from USB but everytime I am getting the same error . Pls help somebody and I have already formatted C drive still no clue.
October 13th, 2012 on 11:33 PM
All I just got my configuration to work after switching up some stuff on my BIOS. This was for the GA-EP45 motherboard. I set my options in the BIOS for SATA RAID “RAID” , SATA Port0-3 “Enable”, Onboard SATA Ctrl Mode “AHCI”.