DISKPART VIRTUAL DISK ERROR...."The object is not found."

Hello all,

My apologies up front for a long post, and most likely some information that you don't need. But I want to be thorough and make sure I include everything that might be pertinent.

I built a desktop back in October of 2018, and it's worked great up until a couple days ago.

CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K
Motherboard: Z370-EGAMING LGA1151
Video: ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
HDD: 970 EVO Plus
OS: Windows 10 Pro

I have a total of 4 monitors hooked up. ASUS sent out an update for my graphics card on 5/9/19, and that's when the problems started. After I downloaded and installed the graphics update, I was playing Witcher 3 and everything went haywire. The graphics system became very unstable, the game crashed (which isn't all that rare), and I could only use 1 monitor for whatever reason. I re-installed the video card drivers, and that fixed the problem temporarily.

Everything seemed to be working fine....played the game again, and voila, same thing happened....graphics became unstable, and I could only use 1 monitor. So I reinstalled the video card drivers again, to no avail. Down to 1 monitor.

Long story short, I decided the best course of action was to just reinstall everything, including Windows 10. In hindsight, I should have posted here first.

So when I attempt to load Windows from the bootable USB stick, I get to the point where it asks:

"Where do you want to install Windows?"

Drive 0 Unallocated Space - Total size 232.9GB - Free Space 232.9 GB

When I attempt to select this drive, at the bottom it says, "Windows can't be installed on this drive". When I click on that message it says, "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu."

So I did some research, and found DISKPART.

Here's where I'm at now:

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
------------ --------------------------- ----------- ---------- ----- ------
Disk 0 Online 232 GB 232 GB
Disk 1 Online 14GB 857 MB

(Disk 1 is the Windows USB Stick)

I've cleaned the Disk 0, and that command works fine.

When I attempt to CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY, I get this message:

DISKPART> CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY

Virtual Disk Service error:
The object is not found.

Unfortunately, among all the research I've done, and youtube videos I've watched, there's not one that addresses this specific issue.

When I run the DETAIL command, I get:

DISKPART> DETAIL DISK

Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 250GB
Disk ID: 00000000
Type : NVMe
Status : Online
Path : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1D00)#PCI(0000)#NVME(P00T00L00)
Current Read-only State: No
Read-only: No
Boot Disk: No
Pagefile Disk: No
Hibernation File Disk: No
Crashdump Disk: No
Clustered Disk: No

There are no volumes.

You guys have any ideas?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Could you tell me how the USB stick was created? I want to be sure it's not a disk that was customized for unattended install for a BIOS only system as an example.
Also, could you try something and let me know what happens? I'm making the assumption that your BIOS is configured to UEFI mode. With that assumption, go into diskpart, select disk 0, and run "convert gpt". Exit diskpart.

Try again to install Windows from the USB stick.

Let me know what happens.

Thank you for the warm welcome Ken.

I followed your directions as stated.

When I get to the 'Convert gpt' step, I get an error message:

Virtual Disk Service error:
The object is not found.

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hsehestedt,

Thanks for your reply.

See comments above.

The BIOS is indeed configured in UEFI mode.

The USB stick is the actual stick I received from Microsoft. I've got the stick and the product key.

The problem is that I can't get past this Virtual Disk Service error: The object is not found.

It was brand new when I bought it in October 2018. It was working great until 2 days ago. The initial problem was with the video card, not the hard drive.

My gut says it wasn't the drive, not at least initially. I may have screwed it up somehow in the meantime.

I believe the problem using Diskpart for partitioning, as in my case was that once I converted the disk to GPT then I gotthe same error message as the title thread and could only use the Create Volume command to create partitions on a GPT converted drive/disk and so to convince myself I clean ed the disk/drive and converted the drive/disk back to MBR . Then I could use the diskpart Create Partition command but not the create Volume command to create partition s and this is where a few of the online tutorials may not point this out, suggesting if you convert to GPT then go on to use the create partition command to showing examples and similarly with convert ing to MBR and not able to use create volume command.
Hope that helps but as others suggested there are a few free or limited partition manager softwares for doing partitioning and the resizing of .I had a specific reason for wanting to try using diskpart when Win10 wouldnt install after using a free partition manager then I discovered other quicker partition managers but just went back to win7 as it still didnt install for ME using MBR partitioning .

I have never used a third-party software to partition a disk before installing Windows 10 on it.