Installing Windows 10
August 7th, 2016
With Windows 10 on a hard drive that had Windows 7. I formatted the hard drive and I get. Windows cannot be installed on this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style. So I format the drive and try to install and I get that. I delete the partition and make a new one and I still get that. I had to move my files off the drive, then re partition the whole drive again so it will install.
Same if I had Windows home and format the drive and go to install a different Windows 10 on it. I get windows cannot be installed on this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style.
So what is the reason that everytime I install Windows 10 I have to re partition the whole hard drive every single time!
Thanks
Did you look around, I found this info
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_install/windows-cannot-be-installed-on-this-disk-the/8fa72a3e-10c5-47da-a040-1e0db62af309?auth=1
Convert to mbr and see what happens
It looks like you need to get your bios into UEFI mode,when it boots up, if you want to leave that disk in GPT style
which is probably the best thing to do.(I assume you must already have EUFI and were using it with Windows 7).
Say you are booting from a USB stick to install Windows, then pick – Uefi Sansdisk, rather than just – Sansdisk or whatever.
I got that option on mine, so I guess that’s what it means !………..Or if that fails, just do like say !
Something about it here..
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/library/hh825112.aspx
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/library/dn336946.aspx
‘s link has some deep thoughts on the subject too .
A few more years and we won’t have to think about it, like IDE hard drives and floppy disks.
..But don’t forget those Superfloppies.
Did you look around, I found this infoI looked around before asking and did not get a clear answer
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_install/windows-cannot-be-installed-on-this-disk-the/8fa72a3e-10c5-47da-a040-1e0db62af309?auth=1
It looks like you need to get your bios into UEFI mode,when it boots up, if you want to leave that disk in GPT styleNow that is probably the clearest infomation I have read on it. Much appreciated I will give it a try
which is probably the best thing to do.(I assume you must already have EUFI and were using it with Windows 7).
Say you are booting from a USB stick to install Windows, then pick - Uefi Sansdisk, rather than just - Sansdisk or whatever.
I got that option on mine, so I guess that's what it means !...........Or if that fails, just do like say !
Something about it here..
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/library/hh825112.aspx
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/library/dn336946.aspx
's link has some deep thoughts on the subject too .
A few more years and we won't have to think about it, like IDE hard drives and floppy disks.
..But don't forget those Superfloppies. 🙂
To install Windows in GPT you need to install it in UEFI mode. Make a bootable USB and start it in UEFI mode and it will install.
Thank you will try that when I do a clean install again
I have 2 pcs, 1 Pc a clean install takes 11 minutes.
But I am doing the free upgrade on my other pc and does anyone know why it takes so long? I mean upgrading windows 21% in 50 minutes plus. The hard drive is a SSD and the pc is no way slow. The Windows 7 on there was a clean install as well. So just upgrading from a clean windows 7.
Because a clean install is nothing more than a file copy operation the installer just extracts a wim file like a .zip where as an upgrade is a far more complicated operation. it has to take all your programs and migrate them to the new os.
Ah thanks, took 65 minutes to install. Only thing I had installed was chrome and I had no files to copy across so sure took a long time.