Windows Cannot Be Installed To This Disk

[boweasel]

Got fed up with Windows 10. I had opened a new topic in the W10 forum, How Do I Access Settings If Windows +I Gives Me An Error - Windows 10 Forums, but that thread has gotten almost no responses that have been helpful. So I backed up everything and slipped in my Windows 7 Home 64 bit disk (downloaded from a link from this forum) and booted, setting the boot option to use the DVD.

It started okay, I deleted the Windows partition, formatted the space, created a new partition, and was greeted with the following:

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.

I found a thread about this: http://www.sevenforums.com/installa...nstall-windows-7-64-bit-mbr-part-table-2.html, but I did not understand the 'solution'.

 

[samuria]

Boot install DVD delete all partitions do not create any let windows create what it needs

 

[boweasel]

Boot install DVD delete all partitions do not create any let windows create what it needs

THAT was the problem, my friend! I only deleted the main partition. Removing the other two was the ticket. The install is proceeding nicely.

Thank you. I wonder why the other poster with this problem required 3+ pages of confusion when you handled it in a single sentence? (Unfortunately I have to spread reputation around before I can give any more to you. Thanks for this and for whatever you helped me with in the past).

 

[AddRAM]

Or you could have just installed in Legacy mode.