Help!
I have a gigabyte z77 mother board and have windows 7 64 bit installed on a crucial M4 128bit ssd. I now want to install a full version of windows 8 64bit so I can dual boot between the two.
Went through creating a partition perfectly fine, and then popped the CD and rebooted. It began to load ok and then when selecting the partition I had made on the ssd, it comes up with:
“the selected drive has an MBR partition table. on EFI systems, windows can only be installed to GPT disks”
Google has very kindly come up with a host of results of which I have tried many and cant remember half of.
MBR vs. GPT Windows Installation Issues – this suggests that the DVD should be on something other than UEFI, which it isn’t anyway and I don’t have any other options.
Windows 8 Consumer Release Installation Issue - "On EFI systems, Windows..... - has no answers in it. Does have a suggestion that I can try software by a company called paragon, but it appears you only get that facility in the full paid for version, at the excessive cost of around £/$100.
installing Windows 7 - 64 Bit (MBR Part Table) - Motherboard: GA-H61MA-D3V – I have gone through the bios a million times today and have no such options to turn off EFI.
MBR, EFI, GPT, New system installation troubles with Win7 64 – this tends to suggest reformatting, but I want to dual boot, not get rid of windows 7 and put on 8.
Designing for 64-bit Windows – this says your MBR can only cope with 4 partitions, whilst I was now trying with 5. I have deleted 1 partition and retried, still the same.
Tried a few other things which I cant remember the links for and now my heads done in. Have any of you guys and girls had a similar issue or have any idea what else I can try? Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers.
I have a gigabyte z77 mother board and have windows 7 64 bit installed on a crucial M4 128bit ssd. I now want to install a full version of windows 8 64bit so I can dual boot between the two.
Went through creating a partition perfectly fine, and then popped the CD and rebooted. It began to load ok and then when selecting the partition I had made on the ssd, it comes up with:
“the selected drive has an MBR partition table. on EFI systems, windows can only be installed to GPT disks”
Google has very kindly come up with a host of results of which I have tried many and cant remember half of.
MBR vs. GPT Windows Installation Issues – this suggests that the DVD should be on something other than UEFI, which it isn’t anyway and I don’t have any other options.
Windows 8 Consumer Release Installation Issue - "On EFI systems, Windows..... - has no answers in it. Does have a suggestion that I can try software by a company called paragon, but it appears you only get that facility in the full paid for version, at the excessive cost of around £/$100.
installing Windows 7 - 64 Bit (MBR Part Table) - Motherboard: GA-H61MA-D3V – I have gone through the bios a million times today and have no such options to turn off EFI.
MBR, EFI, GPT, New system installation troubles with Win7 64 – this tends to suggest reformatting, but I want to dual boot, not get rid of windows 7 and put on 8.
Designing for 64-bit Windows – this says your MBR can only cope with 4 partitions, whilst I was now trying with 5. I have deleted 1 partition and retried, still the same.
Tried a few other things which I cant remember the links for and now my heads done in. Have any of you guys and girls had a similar issue or have any idea what else I can try? Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- windows 7 and 8 64bit
- System Manufacturer/Model
- self built
- CPU
- I5 2500K
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte z77
- Memory
- 16GB of kingston hyper x
- Graphics Card(s)
- MSI 7850 frozr 3
- Hard Drives
- 128GB crucial M4
1TB western digital harddrive
- PSU
- cooler master 650
- Case
- Midgaurd
- Cooling
- Mount Doom Cooler
