Hi, if you’re installing Windows and you can’t select the disk
click ‘Show details’ and you see this message
which means that you can’t install Windows in UEFI mode on the disk that has MBR partition table.
I will show how to fix this problem.
There are 2 methods which are as following:
1. Delete all partitions on the disk and let Windows convert it to GPT.
2. Convert partition table to GPT using diskpart program.
I recommended the first method which is simple and fast.
But I will provide the second method as reference as well.
Let’s begin with the first method.
In this example, I want to install Windows on Disk 0 which has 2 partitions.
So I select a partition on the disk and click ‘Delete’.
Click ‘OK’ to confirm.
And do it on the remaining partitions as well.
Now, the disk status is displayed as ‘Unallocated space’.
And I can select this disk to install Windows by just click ‘Next’.
And Windows will format it as GPT partition table.
Next, the second method.
Press Shift + F10 to open command prompt window.
Type 'diskpart' and press Enter.
Next, type 'list disk' to display all disks on this computer.
I want to install Windows on disk 0 so I will convert it to GPT.
Type ‘select disk 0’ and press Enter.
After that, type ‘clean’ and press Enter.
This command will delete all data including partition and volume on the disk.
Then, type ‘convert gpt’ and press Enter.
This will convert the disk to GPT partition table.
Next, type ‘exit’ .
And close this command prompt window.
Click ‘Refresh’ to update disk status.
And select the disk.
Now I can install Windows on the disk.
So that's it for this video.
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