cant install windows on hdd

[Ls9L]

so my friend built his first pc and he bought a used hard drive because he had a 500 dollar budget and spent a lot of it on rbg -__- lol but when he goes to install windows it says "windows cannot be installed to this disk. the selected disk has an mbr partition table on efi system windows can only be installed to gpt disks" anybody know how to fix this? its a WD scorpio blue 250 gb

[TetraSky]

Yes. Delete the partition on the drive before attempting to install on it and it should format it to GPT.

 

It's something in the Bios about EUFI and Legacy boot.

Bios is likely set to eufi. Which is good, but it only accept GPT.

[Metallus97]

Do you know how to format it in GPT ( easiest way is to do it with a different PC or with GParted live)

[Ls9L]

2 minutes ago, Metallus97 said:

Do you know how to format it in GPT ( easiest way is to do it with a different PC or with GParted live)

is there any way he can do it without needing another pc ?

 

[Metallus97]

1 minute ago, Ls9L said:

is there any way he can do it without needing another pc ?

 

yup! you can do it in CMD on the install disk or make a boot stick/cd: https://gparted.org/livecd.php

that a smal live linux with gparted on it (best partition manager) 

[TetraSky]

2 minutes ago, Ls9L said:

is there any way he can do it without needing another pc ?

 

If you want to convert from MBR to GPT disk during the Windows installation, you should open command prompt by pressing Shift + F10 on the install screen.

 

Step 1. enter "diskpart" to run the utility.

Step 2. Type "list volume" to find out if there are any partitions or volumes on the MBR disk you want to convert to GPT. If there are, you need to use diskpart delete partition first.

Then, type "list disk", and press Enter, it will show you all the disks on your computer. Make note of the disk number that you want to convert to a GPT disk. Here we will take disk 1 as our example.

Step 3. Type "select disk 1", press "Enter", it will remind you that the disk 1 is selected.

Step 4. Type “clean” and press “Enter” to remove all the partitions and volumes on the selected disk.

Step 5. Type "convert gpt", press "Enter" to begin the operation. After a few moments, you will find that Command Prompt says DiskPart successfully converted the selected disk to the GPT format. Please have a look at the below screenshot.

[Ls9L]

1 minute ago, Metallus97 said:

yup! you can do it in CMD on the install disk or make a boot stick/cd: https://gparted.org/livecd.php

that a smal live linux with gparted on it (best partition manager) 

but to download that u need another pc and all he has is that pc 

[Ls9L]

1 minute ago, TetraSky said:

If you want to convert from MBR to GPT disk during the Windows installation, you should open command prompt by pressing Shift + F10 on the install screen.

 

Step 1. enter "diskpart" to run the utility.

Step 2. Type "list volume" to find out if there are any partitions or volumes on the MBR disk you want to convert to GPT. If there are, you need to use diskpart delete partition first.

Then, type "list disk", and press Enter, it will show you all the disks on your computer. Make note of the disk number that you want to convert to a GPT disk. Here we will take disk 1 as our example.

Step 3. Type "select disk 1", press "Enter", it will remind you that the disk 1 is selected.

Step 4. Type “clean” and press “Enter” to remove all the partitions and volumes on the selected disk.

Step 5. Type "convert gpt", press "Enter" to begin the operation. After a few moments, you will find that Command Prompt says DiskPart successfully converted the selected disk to the GPT format. Please have a look at the below screenshot.

when he clicks shift and f10 nothing happens 

[TetraSky]

1 minute ago, Ls9L said:

when he clicks shift and f10 nothing happens 

 

Should press Shift + F10 at that screen. If that doesn't do anything, make him check his keyboard to make sure the F rows is enabled and doesn't need fn to be pressed or some other crap like that.