How to fix the "windows cannot be installed to this disk" error

When installing Windows on your PC or Laptop, you can get two very common errors :

Windows cannot be installed on this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style.Windows cannot be installed on this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed on GPT disks

Let’s look at both of these problems in detail.

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Windows cannot be installed on this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style

The reason for this error is that the motherboard only supports Legacy BIOS, not both Legacy & UEFI or CSM boot. Since conventional BIOS cannot accept GPT partitions, you can only mount Windows khổng lồ an MBR disc in legacy BIOS mode, but data read/write on GPT discs is possible as long as Windows supports it.

You can solve sầu this problem by opening cmd during the installation process & cleaning the disk you are trying khổng lồ install your windows on and convert it khổng lồ MBR. Here are detailed steps :

On the main installation wizard, where you have the option lớn INSTALL NOW, press “SHIFT + F10 ” to open up Commvà Prompt(cmd). If you are using a máy tính, you may need to lớn press the “Fn” key as well khổng lồ use your function keys on the keyboard, ie “Shift + Fn + F10”.

Enter Comm& Prompt – Windows 10Once the cmd is opened, exeđáng yêu the following commands one by one. It will show available disks on your system, their status, size, & other different attributes.

diskpartand

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list disk

Execute “diskpart” và “danh sách disk”Select the disk you want khổng lồ install your Windows on by the following command:

select disk nHere n could be any available disk. In our case, we selected Disk 1 so our commvà the following:

select disk 1Now write the following commvà lớn clean this disk:cleanFinally, exexinh tươi the following commvà to lớn convert the selected disk (disk 1 in our case) to lớn the MBR partition.convert mbrOnce you get the message “Diskpart successfully converted the selected disk to MBR format”, write the exit commvà lớn exit the cmd.

Run these commandsNow you are ready to install your windows on the selected disk and there should be no errors.

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Note: Make sure you backup your data because cleaning the disk will remove sầu the data in it.

Windows cannot be installed on this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed on GPT disks

The second common error during installing Windows is that the selected disk is of MBR format. You’ll need some knowledge of UEFI + GPT boot khổng lồ understvà this issue. While both an MBR và a GPT disc can potentially be used to lớn boot operating systems on EFI systems, Microsoft requires that Windows be built on a GPT disc.

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The easiest way lớn correct this mistake is to lớn transform the MBR disc into lớn a GPT disc. The solution Process is similar for this problem too; cmd during installation is used lớn convert MBR disk lớn GPT format.

Navigate to lớn the commvà prompt as we did in the previous solution.Search for disks & select the one you want khổng lồ install as we did in steps 2 – 3.Exedễ thương these commands in order lớn select and delete all the volumes of the selected disk:

detail diskselect volume=0delete volumeselect volume=1delete volumeOnce all volumes on the dynamic disk are deleted, write the following commvà to convert our MBR format disk khổng lồ GPT format.convert basic

, write the convert basic commvà to convert our MBR format disk khổng lồ GPT formatOnce Diskpart shows it has successfully converted the selected dynamic disk to lớn basic format, you can type ‘exit’ lớn quit from Diskpart.Now you are ready to lớn install your windows on the selected disk và there should be no errors.

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Note: Make sure you backup your data because cleaning the disk will remove sầu the data in it.