We couldn’t create a new partition or locate an existing one – Windows 11

Windows installer will create 3 volumes from unallocated space but errors on installation. iirc the partitions are EFI, wsr(?) – each a few 100mb only max, and the main data volume which takes up the rest of the space.

When I try to install Windows onto the largest volume on the drive I get an error We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one.

I tried following this guide https://appuals.com/fix-we-couldnt-create-a-new-partition-or-locate-an-existing-one/ . The last time I tried I got an error about the drive having a MBR partition table.

I’ve used the same USB drive to install Windows 11 previously on the same machine so I’m a bit stumped as to what the problem is.

The drive had a working Windows 11 install on it until I wiped it under linux. I’ve recreated the partition table and zero’d out the disk but so far the issue hasn’t changed.

I see there’s a similar issue Windows installation: Couldn’t create a new partition or locate an existing one but it doesn’t resolve my problem.

Motherboard is a Gigabyte Z490 Vision-D

Setup Logs: setuperr.log setupact.log 1/2 setupact.log 2/2

Install process: beginning with unallocated space

Error encountered trying install to unallocated space

Installer creates partitions but errors when trying to install to them

This is the partition map created by the windows 11 installer when beginning from unallocated space

The partition table has been recreated as GPT but the issue remains

This is the output of diskutil list disk