Clean windows 10 install

debitcardmayhem

change the boot type to efi in the bios, or format the disk to mbr

arciere

Thomas_Holding said:

Thank you I tried that but I still get the above any idea?

You need to get rid of the partition in the middle. Basically, you need to remove all the partitions (because you can't have a mix of GPT and MBR partitions on the same disk) and let Windows create its own partition.

arciere

debitcardmayhem said:

arciere said:

JJ_Egan said:

Will that change the boot from GPT to MBR ??

GPT and MBR are partition structures that, by definition, come with the partition. If you delete all the partition, there is no GPT or MBR left.

There will still be a gpt, empty

How?

debitcardmayhem

debitcardmayhem said:

change the boot type to efi in the bios, or format the disk to mbr

arciere said:

Thomas_Holding said:

Thank you I tried that but I still get the above any idea?

You need to get rid of the partition in the middle. Basically, you need to remove all the partitions (because you can't have a mix of GPT and MBR partitions on the same disk) and let Windows create its own partition.

Waste of time the pc has booted in legacy , the disk is gpt, delete the partition leaves the disk as gpt, stop wasting thomas’ time 

debitcardmayhem

arciere said:

debitcardmayhem said:

arciere said:

JJ_Egan said:

Will that change the boot from GPT to MBR ??

GPT and MBR are partition structures that, by definition, come with the partition. If you delete all the partition, there is no GPT or MBR left.

There will still be a gpt, empty

How?

Are you serious , the type of disk is in boot block one , you need to create a new partition table.

DoaM

arciere said:

Thomas_Holding said:

Thank you I tried that but I still get the above any idea?

You need to get rid of the partition in the middle. Basically, you need to remove all the partitions (because you can't have a mix of GPT and MBR partitions on the same disk) and let Windows create its own partition.

Agreed. Get rid of all partitions so you're left with only unallocated space, and then let the Windows install create the partitions it needs.

debitcardmayhem

DoaM said:

arciere said:

Thomas_Holding said:

Thank you I tried that but I still get the above any idea?

You need to get rid of the partition in the middle. Basically, you need to remove all the partitions (because you can't have a mix of GPT and MBR partitions on the same disk) and let Windows create its own partition.

Agreed. Get rid of all partitions so you're left with only unallocated space, and then let the Windows install create the partitions it needs.

Not you too, read my last few posts

arciere

debitcardmayhem said:

arciere said:

debitcardmayhem said:

arciere said:

JJ_Egan said:

Will that change the boot from GPT to MBR ??

GPT and MBR are partition structures that, by definition, come with the partition. If you delete all the partition, there is no GPT or MBR left.

There will still be a gpt, empty

How?

Are you serious , the type of disk is in boot block one , you need to create a new partition table.

Sorry, I re-read your post, I thought you said 'THEY will still be a gpt, empty', meaning that if you delete the partitions, they will still be there, but empty. That's why I thought "how can the partition still be there, if you've just deleted it".
Yes, if the disk is GPT, you need to 'clean' it using diskpart (the easiest option), but you still need to get rid of all the partitions.

DoaM

debitcardmayhem said:

DoaM said:

arciere said:

Thomas_Holding said:

Thank you I tried that but I still get the above any idea?

You need to get rid of the partition in the middle. Basically, you need to remove all the partitions (because you can't have a mix of GPT and MBR partitions on the same disk) and let Windows create its own partition.

Agreed. Get rid of all partitions so you're left with only unallocated space, and then let the Windows install create the partitions it needs.

Not you too, read my last few posts

I'd started typing but got distracted with something else ... I didn't refresh before hitting submit so didn't see your posts at all.

All I know is (when I clean installed W10 to my SSD) that there were no partitions, only unallocated space, and the W10 install created everything it needed.

debitcardmayhem

If Thomas wants to use EFI (which the disk used before) he needs to change the BIOS, otherwise no need to use diskpart he just need to click on Format on the install screen