Question Hi guys, can corporate computers have their there own bios. My friend bought a refurbished one and can't install windows on a new drive.

[Alan Alan]

It gives me a message that it can't be installed because the drive is formatted as a GPT partition & there's a format button that does nothing.

 

[MajorPager]

You can try to flash the BIOS or search in the BIOS options for something to turn that off. Otherwise, I hope you didn't pay that much for it.

You could also try a different drive to see if that works

 

[kira-faye]

It gives me a message that it can't be installed because the drive is formatted as a GPT partition & there's a format button that does nothing.

Go in to advanced installation options or whatever it is and delete all the partitions on the drive so it just shows one listing for "unallocated space", then select that and continue the installation. Should work, but be warned it will delete everything on the drive.

 

[PassMark]

In some cases deleting the partitions isn't enough to fix issues with the partition table format (which is what GPT / MBR is).

In those cases zero the start of the drive to wipe the partition table entirely. Backup any important data first.

 

[Alan Alan]

Go in to advanced installation options or whatever it is and delete all the partitions on the drive so it just shows one listing for "unallocated space", then select that and continue the installation.

This was a new drive, I'm wondering if corporate computers use their own bios, it was a corp computer they sold off. The do it every 5 years. My friend can't install windows on the drive that was in there or the new one. We took the bios defaults, but I wonder if it's a corporate bios. We're trying to get the bios for the mobo as it stands.