- May 3, 2013
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I have a HP m6-1002tx laptop, it came with Windows7 & during the upgrade offer i purchased windows 8 pro at discounted price. But when i made a bootable usb and tried to install it, it gave me error that my harddisk needs to GPT. After lots of searching i came to know a simple method using command prompt and diskpart command, so i booted from that usb and opened command prompt and tried it many times, but it didn't work. Then i was desperate for some work, so installed a pirated version of windows 8 (sorry! was too desperate). But surprisingly, it didnot ask for a gpt! my bios but it is uefi enabled. Now i have some free time and wish to install my paid version of w8 pro, since i'm again going to face same problem, what should i do?
I have an external usb hard disk, can i install win7 or 8 on it and boot using the usb hdd and then try converting my inbuilt hdd using disk management utility?
Also i would like to install linux on another partition, will it have any problem with gpt?
Sorry for the long post.
I have an external usb hard disk, can i install win7 or 8 on it and boot using the usb hdd and then try converting my inbuilt hdd using disk management utility?
Also i would like to install linux on another partition, will it have any problem with gpt?
Sorry for the long post.
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