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The user encountered an error during Windows 8 installation, indicating the disk was MBR and needed to be converted to GPT, but faced issues with disk conversion and partition creation. They also tried using Command Prompt but received an error stating the drive cannot be converted, suspecting a virtual drive issue, and are seeking alternative methods to restore their hard drive to factory settings without a recovery disk. Another user suggests visiting the Windows 8 forum for more targeted assistance. Overall, the thread centers on troubleshooting disk conversion and recovery challenges during OS installation.
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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 manually.

Gave me: Virtual drive error:This specific drive cannot be converted. Example: dvds and cds cannot be converted
It is not a virtual machine,it is the real hdd.
Solve the virtual drive problem and im sure i can take it from there on out.
now i have no other option, is there any other way to format the harddrive to its original factory defualts?

I do not have a recovery disk. :computer: :computer:
 

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Go down to the Windows 8 forum you'll have to create another account there you'll probably get more help there.
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