Got a Lenovo laptop that had a GPT partition on it. It was running Windows 8 which I upgraded first to 8.1, then to 10, 64bit all. Also cloned the 250gb drive over to a 1TB drive.
I then (for reasons i won't go in to) decided to switch to a 32bit version of Windows 10... (the machine only has 4gigs of memory anyway, and it'll all be fine for my uses).
Naturally, the machine won't allow me to install on the GPT partition, even with the computer set for Legacy.
All I want to do at this point is just wipe the drive and use a Windows 10 Pro 32bit install disc I burned to start fresh.
HOW do I wipe this disc of EVERYTHING and start new? (The computer won't let me do A THING with this drive.)
The only thing I can think of is take the drive from an older machine that doesn't have GPT, and clone that to the 1TB drive. I assume it'll stop being GPT and it'll then be possible to install the 32 bit OS.
If there's another way that'd be less "lumpy"...
I then (for reasons i won't go in to) decided to switch to a 32bit version of Windows 10... (the machine only has 4gigs of memory anyway, and it'll all be fine for my uses).
Naturally, the machine won't allow me to install on the GPT partition, even with the computer set for Legacy.
All I want to do at this point is just wipe the drive and use a Windows 10 Pro 32bit install disc I burned to start fresh.
HOW do I wipe this disc of EVERYTHING and start new? (The computer won't let me do A THING with this drive.)
The only thing I can think of is take the drive from an older machine that doesn't have GPT, and clone that to the 1TB drive. I assume it'll stop being GPT and it'll then be possible to install the 32 bit OS.
If there's another way that'd be less "lumpy"...