I need some guys, i brought an HP Pavilion G6 and it comes with an GUID partition table (GPT), EFI and Secure Boot. However i need an MBR partition table, so i tried disk managerment but the option "convert to mbr" is greyed out and when i run the "diskpart - list disk - select disk 0 - convert mbr" i get an error "cannot convert a partition which has a pagefile on it" (disabling the pagefile didn t helped).
I guess my only other option is to format it, but the notepad comes with an lincesed win8 which i dont wont to loose. So what are my options? I dont ave the CDs, as it s HP packet.
Take a look at the GPT table
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Update:I ve successfully formatted my Notebook. All i had to do is enter legacy mode, disable secure boot and boot from the Windows 7 DVD. So if you ave no intention using Win 8 it won t be a problem to "downgrade" in an UEFI/EFI System.
I guess my only other option is to format it, but the notepad comes with an lincesed win8 which i dont wont to loose. So what are my options? I dont ave the CDs, as it s HP packet.
Take a look at the GPT table
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Update:I ve successfully formatted my Notebook. All i had to do is enter legacy mode, disable secure boot and boot from the Windows 7 DVD. So if you ave no intention using Win 8 it won t be a problem to "downgrade" in an UEFI/EFI System.
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Win 8 32bit
- CPU
- i3 530 out-of-box 4,6 GHz overcl.
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte H55M 3
- Memory
- 2x 4GB Kingston 1333 MHz
- Graphics Card(s)
- XFX 4870 1GB DDR5 XXX