gpt

Hi everyone, first time posting here, I'm trying to reinstall windows on my dell xps 15 from USB, but when I go to choose a drive to install on, they are GPT and need to be MBR, according to my tech friend. However, I can't access command prompt to change this through bios, and my hard drive is...

hi currently windows 10 is installed with UEFI mode in my ASUS notebook. the harddisk is in GPT partitioning style. so when i turn on my notebook, i am getting ASUS logo while booting up instead of the blue coloured windows logo. i want to make a clean installation of windows to bring back the...

Hi, my first post. Plus first time I have had a new win10 system fail with probably a hdd failure, so lots of learning new stuff etc regarding the manipulating EUFI options, GPT options etc. Anyway to cut to the quick, I have an old version of Hirens on flash drive, and the latest version on a...

Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, but I am in the process of a clean install and could do with some help asap please! I'm trying a clean install of Windows 7, having upgraded to Windows 10, but experience some annoying bugs. Anyway, I bought a new PC without an operating system, then an OEM...

Ugghhh... I have a headache. I am trying a clean install of Windows 7, having upgraded to Windows 10, but experience some annoying bugs. Anyway, I bought a new PC without an operating system, then an OEM copy of Windows 7 :-/ So, after attempting this clean install, I got to the stage after...

I want to install windows 8.1 on a new SSD, but I want the SSD to MBR instead of GPT. Before installation I changed the disk to MBR using diskpart (through the shift+f10 cmd function) However windows automaticly changes the disk to GPT during installation. How can I install windows 8.1 using MBR?

Greetings, I am experiencing an issue with Windows 10 since my upgrade. Just a little info first: I installed Win10 cleanly (I kept nothing from Win 8.1) The SSD is a Samsung 840 EVO, set up as a GPT volume, and it is not my OS drive. I use it as my game installation location. The issue...

Hello everyone, I just got a new 3TB hard disk and I can't install Windows 7 64 bit on it. I have added the disk to another computer and I converted it to GPT (GUID). Now it has two partitions: 400 GB and 2,400 GB. (when I try to install Windows it also says it has a 128MB partition of type MSR...

I think this experience may be useful to Win7/8 users who build and maintain home and small business systems. I regularly clone and swap drives keeping at least one spare at the ready per system at all times. I was shocked to discover that under certain conditions Win7 installation creates a...

Hi, I recently purchased a Lenovo laptop with pre-installed windows 8.1. However, after using windows 8.1 for a while, I still wanna go back to windows 7. But since I bought my laptop with licensed windows 8.1, i dont want to waste it which led me to dual booting w7 and w8.1. I encountered...

i have googled the web but could not come up with any answers. I have a windows softwareraid "5" (yes plz hate me for this) with 3x3TB disks, one disk recensently failed. I have just replaced the bad disk with a new one. But i have still no way to add the new disk to the "old" raid, and the bad...

Hi there guys and girls. So I decided to try Windows 8 on my Windows 7 PC so I went ahead and try dual boot. I entered the W8 setup screen and when I got to the part where I need to select a partition I wasn't able to because I was told I needed a GPT partition so I went ahead and opened a...

I was instaling win8 in a laptop that had previoselly win 8. It is a 64bits. I have 1 hdd with 2 partitions, the C that has the os and the G that I use for backup. During istalation I selected the drive C to install win8 and formated. But I didnt show the option next was greyed out. And and...

I have got a 3TB hard disc which contains a 750 GB GPT partition. It is not my first main hard disk but an external USB hard disk. My first main hard disk based on MBR. With a tool like Easeus Partition Manager I deleted the existing GPT partition on the new external USB hard disk and turned...

Hi Windows community, I would greatly appreciate some advice for fixing my dead Lenova G505 notebook. I am downgrading the factory Windows 8 operating system to a new version of Windows 7. Through my attempts, I have rendered my notebook useless. I turn on the notebook and see the "Lenova"...

Guys, Windows 7 Pro SP1 64-Bit with an ASRock P67 PRO3 (B3) MoBo that has a UEFI BIOS, i5-2500K and Corsair Vengeance 16 Gigs. My C, D and E partitions are on a 120 GB NTFS SSD with a MBR. My present STORAGE HDD is a 2TB Toshiba with a MBR. I recently purchased a Toshiba PH3300U-1I72 3TB...

Hello everyone, i just recently joined this forum because i wanted to seek the solution to my problem. Recently i just bought Lenovo G500 Notebook with Win8 64bit OS but i wanted to replace it with Win7 64bit for the reason i am more comfortable to use win7 ultimate OS and also some of the...

My mother bought a samsung notebook, which came with Windows 8 original version installed. There is a adhesive for windows 8 confirmation on it. I can send a video of it, but I wanted to change it to Windows 7, installed on my computer that I was used to. So, I made a backup of my Windows 7 and...

In a nutshell - got a new Samsung ultra laptop, don't like the way the disk is structured and lack of facility for creating recovery disks so wiped the 500gb hard drive which is formatted to gpt, repartitioned to give me a 50gb partition for win8, 50gb partition for win7 and the rest reserved...

I've come across this error message when installing "Windows 7 x64 Ulti" "Windows cannot be installed to this disk, The selected disk is of the GPT partition style". I have Windows 8 Installed, it came with the laptop. I have tryed all options on my side e.g. legacy mode, boot order. I am...