So Ive just gotten my PC back from repair; everything is working perfectly, except for a HDD.
I have 3 drives, one being a SSD with the OS on it, the other two being WesternDigital 1TB drives. The problem is that one of the two HDDs is recognized, but not intractable.
The repaired PC came...
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I am booting from windows 7 64bt disk, I have two partitions, but I am getting the message can not install on a gpt style. This laptop had windows 8 on it
can anyone advise
I have a brand new HP Envy dv6 with windows 8 on it from the factor. I have some software that is only available in Windows 7 with upgrade to windows 8 versions 6 to 12 months off. I figured no big deal, I've done dual boots before.
Well it's different now. I made a partition, formatted it...
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I am a bit stuck. Friend detests windows 8 even after i enabled the start button for them. I figured id help them out by installing win7 on it for them....should be easy no? nope.
i deleted the OS partition and it now wont let me install my win7 32bit oem disk on it.
i get the cannot install on...
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I plan to buy Macrium Reflect Pro (MR).
I tested latest build 5529 (version 5.1) trial a couple of days now.
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I use Windows 7 & Ubuntu 12.10 on a GPT HDD inside a UEFI system.
1. Can I backup the GPT structure of the HDD, meaning I can restore on bare metal?
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So I try to install Windows 7 onto my SSD for a completely new comp - and in the 'where do you want to install windows' window I have 2 partitions.
Disk 0 Partition 1 - 100MB total size, 86MB free space, System - type - 'Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT...
Hi friends!
I am new in this forum, I've reading for a while but I couldn't find a soluction, so I've decided to ask you directly.
I've been trying to install two win 7 64 bits in my new computer, in order to use one partition for general use, as internet, webs and so on, an another partition...
Encountered this problem when trying to install windows: I couldnt install windows in C ,neither to format that partition because of this message [Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks]...
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I just bought an HP laptop with Windows 8 on it. I cant stand windows 8 and wanted to put 7 back on but im running into some problems. When i finally boot from the cd and proceed to install windows, it asks me which disk I want to partition, there are five currently which are below. But i cannot...
I just received a new Dell Inspiron 15R-5520 64 bit laptop. I also ordered and received from Dell the Windows 8 OS DVD along with a Drivers DVD. I also own a valid Windows 7 OS with product key. I use Acronis True Image 2013 to backup and restore images of the OS.
I wish to partition my HDD...
Kind of screen glitch that appears before windows 8 lock screen appears at start /restart and a notable delay in starting/restarting time than with my 1st win8 install.
I think this appeared after I installed my windows 7 back ( dont ask me why..)( a clean install) and installed my win8 back...
I have 3 hard disks of 2 TB each with plenty of space for partitions. I run a multi-boot manager with a number of Windows OSs including Windows Vista and Windows 7, along with a number of Linux distros.
I would like to install Windows 8 in its own partition, not upgrade Windows 7. I am...
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While installing windows 8 i ran into an error. It said that this disk is mbr and is needed to be converted to gpt. So I tried formatting it and it said
We couldn't create a new partition [error:0xc983c160] <- googled it and no results at all.
I went to cmd and tried to convert mbr to gpt...
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I recently purchased an SSD to use as my boot disc, and a 1TB HDD to use for my primary storage device.
I installed my SSD, and installed Windows to it, installed my HDD, and set my BIOS up to boot from the SSD, with the HDD as a secondary drive.
In device management, the HDD is is Unallocated...
A new WD30EZRX that I order arrived today, so I wasted no time trying to install it. However, when I put it in my external case, Windows seven couldn't set it up, even though Disk Management did see it. I then tried using Acronis DDS11, but it hung right after it opened.
I then moved the...
I have recently bought Asus G75VW and tried to install W7 DVD as i usually use to but I could not install W7 because it was a gpt partition= Disk 0 containes 4 partitions: 1=System 200MB, 2= MSR 128MB, 3= gpt 95,4 GB and 4=Data 118,4 GB. Disk 0 is a SSD.
Disk 1 is 750GB so thera are two...
hi,
first i'd just like to say i dont know much about this part of computers so if you can help please exaplain clearly.
so, my laptop is getting fuller,slower and i would like to return it to how it was when i bought it.
so i thought i'd reinstall windows.
i put in the disk and boot up my...
The storage industry has recently introduced storage devices with capacities which exceed 2TB (2 trillion bytes). In order for a system to fully support capacities greater than 2TB, the device must be initialized using the GPT partitioning scheme to...
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l am having a problem with installing due to a disk partition problem.. Im getting an error that says "The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems Windows can only be installed to GPT disks"
I have no clue and reading other forums it sounded like specific computers were...