Windows Cannot Be Installed to This Disk. The Selected Disk Is of the GPT Partition Style.

[manjula baghel]

So I waas trying to install Windows 7 on my PC bit his error "Windows Cannot Be Installed to This Disk. The Selected Disk Is of the GPT Partition Style." is showing up.I seached for solutions on google but all of them will clean up my whole hard disk.I dont wanna lose my data.So Please can anybody tell me a way to get rid of this error without formatting my hard disk ?

 

[ThatVietGuy]

And if you installed Windows all of your data would've been erased anyway.

The best idea would be to back up everything you need and install Windows properly.

 

[ss202sl]

Win 7 can read GPT disks. but does not support booting or installing to GPT disks.
Get another disk to put Win 7 on, and then use this disk as a second disk
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn640535(v=vs.85).aspx#gpt_faq_where_spec

 

[manjula baghel]

I am not talking about C Drive. All My partitions will be formatted !!

 

[manjula baghel]

Can i use a Third Part Software to convert the disk ?