Hi Brian I am trying to install windows 7 on my windows 8.1 machine following your video. I get as far as choosing the partition and will not let me load on to it. States the drive is GPT style and this could be why it will not load. Don,t know what to do about it. Can you please advise Bill
If your computer does not support UEFI, delete all the hard drives partitions and create a new partition (backup any data first):
1. Boot from the Windows DVD 2. Click Install Now 3. At the setup screen, click Custom (Advanced) 4. Click Drive Options 5. Select the partition(s) you want to format 6. Click Format - this will delete EVERYTHING on that partition 7. Create a new partition and select a partition to install Windows on. 8. Continue with install. If the Windows install disk doesn’t work for the above you can do the following to reformat your drive:
1. Download and burn a Gparted ISO from here: https://gparted.sourceforge.net/ 2. Boot from the Gparted disk. 3. Use Gparted to delete all partitions on the hard drive. 4. Under “Device” choose Create Partition Table to make a new partition table. 5. Create a NTFS partition (or you could wait and create a partition when installing Windows). 6. Then boot from the Windows install disk and install Windows.
General installing and reinstalling Windows 7 info:
(12-18-2014, 02:54 PM)wildhaggis2 Wrote: [ -> ]Hi Brian I am trying to install windows 7 on my windows 8.1 machine following your video. I get as far as choosing the partition and will not let me load on to it. States the drive is GPT style and this could be why it will not load. Don,t know what to do about it. Can you please advise Bill
Hi the last time I tried to dual boot it did not work as I thought. Windows 7 did load and worked fine but I lost all my windows 8 system. I thought it was going on the partition I made but it took out all my windows 8. Can you advise as to what I did wrong. Best Regards Bill.