Windows cannot be installed to this disk. the selected disk has an MBR partition table
Why Super User recommends it
Super User users link it when answering or describing the Windows installer's MBR-versus-GPT error and a diskpart conversion is the fix, though some note it wipes the disk and can leave boot problems.
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2015 to 2020.
What it is
A short screen-capture tutorial from Britec09 showing how to fix the Windows setup error "the selected disk has an MBR partition table" on EFI systems. It walks through opening a command prompt with Shift+F10 and using diskpart to clean the disk and convert it to GPT.
What people said
Recommends Bernard Allotey · 2015-10 · Super User · on “Windows won't boot”
I accidentally deleted my boot record with this program called EASYBCD. I now cannot boot into windows. I used my windows 10 recovery drive to refresh my PC and delete all files. After a while, I get a message saying it failed to recover this PC. I tried the bootrec/fixmbr but it said I only had windows on the E: drive. I chose that and it said could not find the media specified. If I take my flash drive out and boot, it says no operating systems installed. I am stuck and don't know what to do. EDIT: For people with this problem, I made a windows installation usb, then during setup converted disk to GPT (video on how to do this Here [this video] ). I then installed as normal.
Cites mshwf · 2019-12 · Super User · on “Converting the SSD drive to GPT only by diskpart without formatting the HDD”
I'm trying to clean install Windows 10, I have an SSD and HDD, SSD is where I install Windows, When I prompted that I can't install Windows on the SSD drive because it's in MBR format and it needs to be converted to GPT, I found the solution ( [this video] ) is to format the drive. but I'm afraid that this will also format the HDD (this happened to me in the past, but with a laptop with HDD only, all drives have been formatted) I want to run clean command to only the SSD drive This is on the screen now [LINK] Should I proceed? (only the SSD drive (disk 1) will be formated without affecting the other disks
Cites Abderrahim Ajakka · 2020-07 · Super User · on “Computer doesnt boot after changing disk partition to GPT”
I have an HP pro 3500 PC with windows 7 installed on it, when I wanted to format it with windows 10 it prompts a message saying "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. the selected disk has an MBR partition table...", I followed this video [this video] and changed all partitions to GPT, but for me the installation didn't want to proceed. So I rebooted the PC and now it doesn't read anything, it just tries to access windows via network. I did change the order to start from the USB first, and also explicitly told the computer to boot from USB but that didn't work. from my search I found it's a UEFI thing, but I don't really understand what it is. I'm not really familiar with this sort of issues,