Recently i purchased a laptop from HO which is pre installed with win 8 now i want to change from win 8 to win 7 however when i formatted the PC it says u cannot load windows reason behind is gpt paritition style. please help me out as now my laptop has no OS .
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M Srinivas
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Hello Srinivas, and welcome to Seven Forums.
You could use step 2 and 7 in OPTION TWO of the tutorial below to convert the disk to MBR in a command prompt at boot, then should be able to do a clean install of Windows 7 as usual.
Convert GPT Disk to MBR Disk
Hope this helps, :)
Shawn
1) Downgrade to Windows 7.
Downgrade Windows 8 to Windows 7
Warning you must have the UEFI/BIOS firmware setting in Step Three set.
Make sure you read the NOTE at Step three.
2) If Using a USB Pen drive on a PC with a UEFI BIOS.
USB Pen drive need to be formatted to FAT32 as in
UEFI Bootable USB Flash Drive - Create in Windows
Take note of Step 11 for Windows 7.
Also you will need to use a USB 2.0 port, as there are no USB 3.0 drivers in Windows 7.
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