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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Phelps" data-source="post: 487262" data-attributes="member: 1154">Roe5685: I had much the same experience as you when I recently went to do a clean reinstall of Win8.1 64-bit on a blank SSD.  I couldn't create a partition.  Then, I stumbled upon the solution, as follows:1) Boot windows installation from USB drive2) Press Shift+F103) In console type diskpart.exe and press enter. In this program execute following:    select disk=0. Disk 0 is your destination drive, so be careful, all information on this drive will be removed.    create partition primary size=xxx, where xxx – is the size of new partition    select partition=1    active    format fs=ntfs quick    assign    exit, now you have bootable drive CAt this point, you have a partition created on your drive, so when you reboot and restart the installation, you should be able use that partition.Also, make sure you have no other drives connected during the installation -- I had to disconnect all my other drives to get this to work.</blockquote>