Windows setup says Windows can't be installed on drive 0 partition 1 & cannot be installed on Drive 0 partition 2

I have a gateway laptop from Walmart. Its the touch screen one. I have a dilemma though.
So I got rid of the windows 11 os. And installed PARROT OS/DEBIAN. well I decided I need windows now and debian is kind of useless because incamt find a job that requires me to use a debian platform...

So I've downloaded the windows 11 iso from Microsoft. I'm currently installing it onto m flashdrive with an application on my Android called iso2usb. Here's my major issue. When I go to bios. And boot from the USB. It loads up. But when I confirm my language and time zone, and click INSTALL NOW. It brings me to a page that asks what partition it wants me to install the iso file on. It says at the bottom of the screen I cannot use either partition. Can't use the smaller 300 mb one. More will it allow me to use the partition it was originally installed on. Which was the 60gb partition. When I go to click next, the next button is just greyed out. Need help.

The first in your image has insufficient free space and the second has no free space.
MB = MegaByte GB = GigaByte
The 58GB on the second would be big enough for a clean install. I get a feeling the screen shot isn't complete.

My Notebook:

Exactly.... I've tried formatting the second partition and it does not allow me to. And after trying to install windows 11 with the drive. It completely erased my debian is I had previously installed. So it makes no sense the 2nd partition has absolutely no space.... And the PC has done nothing but just sit in my laptop bag for the last 3 months. The hard drive was working perfectly fine until i tried this install. :/

Wasn’t there a factory partition for a factory recovery install?

Have you tried Diskpart? I’d clean partition one, I’d suspect Partition 2 is a partion on the main drive
Or Diskpart both? But if 2 is a part of 1, diskpart one, or zero or whatever the main disk position is.

antspants said:

At this window:



Shift key + F10
Type; diskpart
Type; list disk
Type; select disk x (x being the drive position/number. Be careful that you are cleaning the right drive/disk)
Type; clean
Type; exit

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By the way, welcome to the ElevenForums, noobie

In a situation like this I have used a bootable GPARTED LiveCD to wipe all partitions and let Windows create as needed. Part of the issue is that Windows can't work with partition formats used by Linux such as ext4. Another choice is a Linux LiveDVD that usually has GPARTED on it and after downloading that .iso file and creating the bootable Linux LiveDVD I boot it and use the USB Image Writer to create a bootable USB drive.

noobie said:

.... I've tried formatting ....

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Not formatting. You need to DELETE ALL the partitions until the drive is just one unallocated space

Existing/Old partitions can be deleted from within the Windows installation process

@idgat & Burton much appreciated! Just downloaded Debian, soon gonna download windows again then install it on USB drive after installing debian. And tbh... the only reason why I decided to install windows again was because parrot is required me to use an external wifi adapter. Gentoo does not bit it sucks. So hopefully debian doesn't need an external wifi adapter.

I have Mint installed but have used USB drives with Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, and others. Usually have no issue with the internal Ethernet and Wireless adapter, Bluetooth usually not found.