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Cannot install windows 10 on XPS8300

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Im trying to install win 10 on a dell xps 8300. It doesnt support UEFI, and the hard drive im using is a 500gb Maxtor HDD. Can anyone explain why id be getting this error? Ive tried everything googles given me.

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Did you create a partition on that hard drive?

 

It looks like it's just unallocated space, which you can't boot to. Unallocated space, to your computer, is nearly the same as not having a hard drive installed at all.

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Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

Did you create a partition on that hard drive?

 

It looks like it's just unallocated space, which you can't boot to. Unallocated space, to your computer, is nearly the same as not having a hard drive installed at all.

I did that aswell, got the same error. It was a 50GB partition 

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1 hour ago, niko.. said:

I did that aswell, got the same error. It was a 50GB partition 

Is the hard drive formatted as MBR?

 

Windows 10 doesn't like GPT formats from my experience

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