Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Cannot install to GPT partition

I was attempting to install Windows 7 to a laptop using a flash drive.
The first problem I ran into was that the laptop would not detect my usb flash drive and I could not set the DVD as the boot drive. In the bios I found a setting called csm or something like that. I enabled that setting and on the next boot, the bios detected the usb drive and the DVD drive.

In the Windows 7 installer I attempted to choose the partition for the install but I was greeted with the error, "windows cannot be installed on this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style."
Cutting to the chase, I had to delete all of the partitions before the installer would allow me to install Windows 7.

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