DAZ-type loader for GPT partitioned drive?
February 5th, 2020
But the Loader doesn’t work on a GPT partitioned install, as I found out later after reading DAZ’s helpfile. Durn.
Anyone know of Loader\Activator that’ll work on GPT?
If not, according to DAZ, I need to format the OS drive to MBR and start again.
Help please
If you use 7 pro or enterprise, you can use KMSpico. with GPT, but it’s not for Ultimate.
There are other things listed in the sticky but they usually cause problems and get picked, after a while, so I would avoid..
https://www..org/viewtopic.php?t=2354964
Thanks , helpful as always
As I said, I’ve built a new PC with plenty of grunt, (Hallelujah), but the shiny new mobo has UEFI. (With menus written in SuperGeekSpeak, sheesh) So, if I read Daz correctly, I should pre-format my new SSD system drive with MBR, perhaps in another computer.
Then mount the drive into my new UEFI machine and install W7 on the partition that should now be showing as an available target (rather than as an unallocated disk).
Thus, W7 should end up on an MBR partition instead of GPT. In which case I can use the Daz loader.
What do you think?
I think you on the right track…Haven’t had much to do with it myself.
A lot on Google, here’s something.
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2227942/build-installation-create-system-partition-ssd.html
http://dazloader.com/common-issues-faq/
If you use Rufus to install Windows from USB
Make sure Partition Scheme is set to MBR.(in Rufus)
Thanks . Finally got it working, which was quite a mission, actually. The hardest part wasn’t actually going through the necessary hoops, it was learning which hoops to jump through. Online, there’s a mountain of speculation and uninformed comment about MBR in a UEFI environment. I was getting to the point where I was even considering BUYING W7, which shows how desperate I became. Still, all done now. Cheers
Yes it all seems a bit tricky!
I was lucky it worked OK when I installed 7 on my UEFI machine.
Partitioning with MBR and formatting the SSD before installing Windows 7 helped, I think.
Now I think about it, the last 6 or 7 PCs I built for customers about 2-3 years back were all UEFI Gigabyte boards, and I seem to recall that there was a clear and obvious choice of MBR. But my new machine’s motherboard, an Asus Z170M-Plus, has the choice but you have to be a friggin’ supergeek to locate it. Took me a week of online pestering before I finally found out how to do it. Frustrating. And all the while I had to put up with moaning whines of, “Why do you want to use MBR?”. LOL, I couldn’t say, “Cos I can’t hack my new W7 Ultimate install in UEFI!”