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Can’t Install Windows - The selected disk Is of the GPT Partition Style 1 year 7 weeks ago

While installing Windows, many users encounter the following error message:

“Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style.”

When you receive this message, you are unable to continue the installation. Then how can you remove this error? Do you know what caused this error? We will show you the reasons as well as the solutions.

You might also be interested in “Windows Cannot Be Installed to This disk. The Selected Disk Has an MBR Partition Table.”

What Causes This Error?

In fact, this is closely related to the boot mode. If you want to install Windows on GPT disk, your computer should be set to boot from UEFI boot mode; if you want to install Windows on MBR disk, your computer should be set to boot from Legacy BIOS. Here you know you receive this message because your PC is booting from Legacy BIOS.

If Windows Cannot Be Installed to GPT Disk, Try These Solutions 1 year 2 weeks ago

While installing Windows on a GPT disk, you may receive an error which reads “Windows cannot be installed to this GPT disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style.”What does this mean?

In fact, this error message indicates that the boot mode of your motherboard is set to Legacy BIOS. Hence, you can only install Windows to an MBR style disk. To remove this error message, you have two choices: convert GPT to MBR or change the boot mode to UEFI if possible.

If Windows Cannot be Installed to MBR Disk, Try This Solution 2 years 18 weeks ago

While trying to install Windows 8 or Windows 10 to a disk, you may receive the following error message:

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

Why Windows cannot be installed to MBR disk?

This is caused by the FFI system of your mother board. I will explain. Under EFI systems, theoretically both MBR disk and GPT disk can be used to boot operating systems, but Microsoft defines that Windows can only be installed on GPT disk to boot. This, you will need to convert the MBR disk to GPT to fix this error.

Can You Install Windows 7 on Dynamic Disk 1 year 18 weeks ago

Do you have such an experience: while installing Windows 7 on dynamic disk, there is a failure, and one error message reports “Windows cannot be installed on this hard disk space. The partition contains one or more dynamic volumes that are not supported for installation”.

What is the reason? As a matter of fact, this problem is caused by the unsupported operating system for the dynamic disk. To be specific, only Windows 7 Ultimate/Professional/Enterprise can be installed on dynamic disk. But Windows 7 Home/Premium and Starter don’t support dynamic disk. What’s more, all Windows home editions and some old operating systems including MS-DOS, Windows 98/95, Windows Me and Windows NT are not allowed to install on dynamic disk.

Well then, how to install OS in dynamic partition? Is it possible to fix this issue when Windows cannot be installed on dynamic disk? Of course. To convert dynamic disk to basic disk should be a good choice.

Is It Possible to Install Windows 7 on Dynamic Disk? 2 years 25 weeks ago

Most of you choose to install Windows 7 to your computer. But when installing Windows 7 system on a dynamic disk, you may receive the error “Windows cannot be installed to this hard disk space. The partition contains one or more dynamic volumes that are not supported for installation”.

Fixed - Windows Must Be Installed to a Partition Formatted as NTFS 2 years 1 week ago

Nowadays dual system gets more and more popular and many users choose to install two operating systems on their hard drive. If you also decide to install another OS on your disk, it is possible that you encounter some problems, especially Windows cannot be installed to this disk issues. Among these issues, you probably receive an error message saying “Windows cannot be installed to the hard disk space. Windows must be installed to a partition formatted in NTFS”.

Windows 7 Does Not Support Dynamic Disk, What to Do? 1 year 10 weeks ago

Windows 7 is the most classical operating system in history. Although now most people go for Windows 10, a lot of users still choose Windows 7. For some computer newbies, when they try to install Windows 7, Windows tell the selected disk is dynamic disk. At this time, they are confused: does Windows 7 support dynamic disk?

In fact, not all Windows 7 supports dynamic disks. If you are installing Windows 7 Starter & Home on dynamic disk, the installation process won’t continue. But for Professional, Enterprise or Ultimate Edition, it goes smoothly.