- Jan 16, 2016
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Ok so just a short disclaimer I am well aware that of some of the things I did may not of been the brightest but here goes anyway,
Basically my Win 7 OS had broken and wouldn't boot. Having tried a few things I decided to do a clean re-install. So no problem I slipped the CD in booted up the machine and headed to the custom install menu. this is where the problem first struck. When I clicked on the partition I wanted it to install the new copy of Windows into it told me I couldn't saying "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks.". Having done a bit of Googling around this problem I found or thought I had found the answer was to delete all the partitions and create a new one and to install Windows on this. So I formated and deleted all the partitions and created a new one. However when I tried to install again it turned out the new partition was still in MBR. Well now I'm really stuck. The old OS on the machine has been erased which means even if it was fixable it is now gone forever. I can't install a new copy of windows because the idiotic disk is in MBR mode.
So any suggestions? Do I just swallow my pride and buy a new HDD? Will that even work? Any suggestions gratefully received.
Basically my Win 7 OS had broken and wouldn't boot. Having tried a few things I decided to do a clean re-install. So no problem I slipped the CD in booted up the machine and headed to the custom install menu. this is where the problem first struck. When I clicked on the partition I wanted it to install the new copy of Windows into it told me I couldn't saying "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks.". Having done a bit of Googling around this problem I found or thought I had found the answer was to delete all the partitions and create a new one and to install Windows on this. So I formated and deleted all the partitions and created a new one. However when I tried to install again it turned out the new partition was still in MBR. Well now I'm really stuck. The old OS on the machine has been erased which means even if it was fixable it is now gone forever. I can't install a new copy of windows because the idiotic disk is in MBR mode.
So any suggestions? Do I just swallow my pride and buy a new HDD? Will that even work? Any suggestions gratefully received.
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