Hi All,
So I've been having system crashes for some time with various BSODs pointing at memory/disk issues, but more than likely it was corrupt Windows files.
Today, it decided to pack in completely, not allowing system restore/reset or any other means of accessing Windows.
Through the Windows reset options I was presented with multiple partitions but all displayed the error "Windows cannot be installed on this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only installed on GPT disks".
I formatted all partitions other than the recovery partition, disabled EFI (enabled legacy) on the boot drive in BIOS, and this still only allowed me to install Windows 32bit (which I'm up and running on now after re-enabling EFI following install). The 64bit installation on the boot media, an official Windows USB installation disk from 4 years ago, still presented the above error in setup.
Question: Does anyone have a link to a step-by-step guide on how I can clean-up the my drive and set it up for a clean 64 bit install please? I've ordered a USB drive to be delivered tomorrow, as I don't have any blank storage options currently to try a fresh download via Windows Installation Media. I suspect even if I do this, there's some disk configuration issue preventing me installing 64bit.
Thanks in advance for anyone who takes the time to respond
So I've been having system crashes for some time with various BSODs pointing at memory/disk issues, but more than likely it was corrupt Windows files.
Today, it decided to pack in completely, not allowing system restore/reset or any other means of accessing Windows.
Through the Windows reset options I was presented with multiple partitions but all displayed the error "Windows cannot be installed on this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only installed on GPT disks".
I formatted all partitions other than the recovery partition, disabled EFI (enabled legacy) on the boot drive in BIOS, and this still only allowed me to install Windows 32bit (which I'm up and running on now after re-enabling EFI following install). The 64bit installation on the boot media, an official Windows USB installation disk from 4 years ago, still presented the above error in setup.
Question: Does anyone have a link to a step-by-step guide on how I can clean-up the my drive and set it up for a clean 64 bit install please? I've ordered a USB drive to be delivered tomorrow, as I don't have any blank storage options currently to try a fresh download via Windows Installation Media. I suspect even if I do this, there's some disk configuration issue preventing me installing 64bit.
Thanks in advance for anyone who takes the time to respond