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sandipgumtya365
Oct 13, 2020Brass Contributor
Create Partition in my HDD
Hi members, I am trying for a fresh installation of Windows-10 in my desktop. In the partition screen, I am unable to view any partition where Windows can be installed. I wante...
Mwoehrle
Oct 13, 2020Brass Contributor
sandipgumtya365 This is caused by your hard drive being formatted as MBR. There's two options you have here:
1) You can adjust your bios settings to allow the this install on the current partition scheme. Follow the steps below:
- Boot into you BIOS
- Go to Boot devices, and find boot order. Enable the ability for legacy mode, save the settings and reboot.
- Now you can install on the current partition scheme.
2) You'll need to convert the MBR disk to a GPT disk. This can be done while at the installation window.
- At the installation screen, go to the command prompt by pressing shift and F10.
- Type the following commands into the command prompt
- diskpart
- list disk
- select disk # (replace # with the disk number you want to convert)
- clean
- convert gpt