Troubles installing windows.

[l0lter]

So I tried to reinstal Windows 7 on a friend of mines laptop but this thing occurred: "Windows cannot be instaled on this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style.". So this is no big deal I fouond some answers on how to fix it. Problem is I have to clean the entire hdd and as clumsy as I am I formated the partition where Windows was installed and now I can't go and save the data from the other partition. So I wanna ask if there is a way I can copy the data from that partition to a flash drive using the console during windows installation(There is not much data on that partition about 7gb mostly pictures and word documents).

 

[hang-the-9]

Make a Linux Live boot CD and use that to copy the files to an external drive. Knopix is a good one for that, burn a disk, boot from it, you'll have a full operating system to browse the disk and copy files.