![]() Hi all, Back in October 2015, my wife acquired Since she didn't like it at all, I managed to install Win7 on it, using the method of bypassing UEFI on a normal MBR HDD, described on this link in the. However, even after installing Win7, the laptop has random reboots now and then, specially after waking up. Back then, no Win7 drivers were available, apparently now there are some, but I still feel inclined to complete wipe out the current system and perform a fresh install of Win10. There's currently a OEM license that can be purchased through Amazon, that costs around 10 EUR and I'm going to use this to activate Win 10. However, I understand that for Win10 the HDD needs to be GPT and since I did the modification to MBR while I was fresh installing Win7, the logic tells me that I need to revert this now. Can somebody please tell me what needs to be changed on the following command or can I just go ahead and wipe the HDD and boot a Win10 DVD? ' At first installer screen Press Shift + F10 to open a Command Box, type: DISKPART LIST DISK SEL DIS 0 (after confirming Windows 7 target HD #) CLEAN CONVERT MBR CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SIZE=102400 (for 100gb partition, adjust as desired) FORMAT FS=NTFS LABEL='WINDOWS 7' ACTIVE EXIT EXIT' I'm not sure if this is the only possible way, I found that there's a tool called, that allows this on a MBR HDD, but I'm not 100% sure if this will work on her laptop. Any hint or suggestion is highly appreciated! Thank you for reading me, Ken. Click to expand.Now (for free and directly from M$) and write it to your DVD (burn the image, not putting the image in as a file) or USB drive (using Rufus, for example). IMPORTANT: Before installing Windows 10, make sure you've backed up all important files to another drive, as the files will be gone when you wipe the partitions. You've been warned. I want to install technical preview on a 64x UEFI/GPT machine currently using Windows 8.1. Installation disk writes that it cannot install on GPT disk. I cannot figure out how to set a volume active or boot on a GPT disk with diskpart. Diskpart.exe on Windows 7 with GPT disk — unable to set partition active? I had a 1TB hard disk installed in my PC with C: and D: partitions on it. The other day I added an SSD and used the bundled Acronis True Image. Boot with DVD or USB and wait for a few minutes to let the files load up. Click 'Install', in your case you shouldn't be prompted with entering product key and choosing the Windows version (as your laptop already has a Windows 8 key embedded). Accept the EULA and delete ALL partitions in your hard drive, then make new partitions as you like and let the installer do the rest. Once done you should have a fully activated Windows 10 in your laptop. Thank you very much for your help on this There might be an issue here. First thing I did when getting the laptop was creating those Recovery DVD's, I think I created 6 in total. However, I deleted any single partition, morevoer, when creating the MBR partition, everything was wiped out. Currently I have two partitions: C: - with 91GB and D: - with 840 GB - nothing else. I first would need to install again those HP Recovery DVD's, have Win8 installed, and then install Win10 again. Not sure if I want to do that, I'm not even sure if it will work without having a recovery partition still existent. Since you told me that there probably will be no need to use that command I found on sevenforums, I think that in the end I will download an official Win10 version and use that license from Amazon. I mean, I can try to re-install Win8 with the DVD's, but in the end it might be just a waste of time. 10€ is a bargain, it comes close to what I spend daily on coffee and lunch. Thank you also for the link, I'll check it out later. ![]() Sometimes, after connecting an external hard drive Windows Disk Management reports it has a GPT Protective Partition and denies permission to reformat the drive. Oct 10, 2013. Due to requirements of the Sabayon installation I was forced to start from scratch with a GPT partition table. I've never had to use a GPT partition table before and hence I got a huge shock when I found that Windows Loader couldn't activate my Windows 7 installation due to the GPT table. Is there any other. ![]()
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