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<blockquote data-quote="Saltgrass" data-source="post: 657479" data-attributes="member: 23000">I can't speak to your personal data.&nbsp; That is your responsibility to maintain.&nbsp; But if you are using a MBR configured drive and try to install in UEFI mode, you will get those messages.&nbsp; You may also run into problems if you install with a previous essential partition already on the drive.So, when you install you get to a window where you set up the partitions.&nbsp; And you are correct, this is where you select and delete the partitions.&nbsp; If you already have a System Reserved or EFI or small Recovery partition, the system may not install.&nbsp; You need to take the first area of the drive you can and remove all partitions in the area where you want to install the OS.&nbsp; Maybe it is 100 GB or 1 TB, that is up to you, but the install need a clear area where it can create and write to the partitions it needs. Below is a Disk Management picture of my laptop's MBR install.&nbsp; You would need to delete the System Reserved and C: partitions and install in that unallocated space.If you are going from an MBR install to a UEFI or vice versa, there can be no partitions on the drive or the install will not be able to convert the drive to the other version.[ATTACH=full]31410[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Saltgrass, post: 657479, member: 23000"] I can't speak to your personal data. That is your responsibility to maintain. But if you are using a MBR configured drive and try to install in UEFI mode, you will get those messages. You may also run into problems if you install with a previous essential partition already on the drive. So, when you install you get to a window where you set up the partitions. And you are correct, this is where you select and delete the partitions. If you already have a System Reserved or EFI or small Recovery partition, the system may not install. You need to take the first area of the drive you can and remove all partitions in the area where you want to install the OS. Maybe it is 100 GB or 1 TB, that is up to you, but the install need a clear area where it can create and write to the partitions it needs. Below is a Disk Management picture of my laptop's MBR install. You would need to delete the System Reserved and C: partitions and install in that unallocated space. If you are going from an MBR install to a UEFI or vice versa, there can be no partitions on the drive or the install will not be able to convert the drive to the other version. [ATTACH=full]31410[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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