cannot reinstall windows 7 home premium

rambostyrer

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Needed to reinstall my windows 7, and got so far as to format my harddrive partitions through my windows dvd.

but I cannot install windows on my old system drive.

When i enter the menu to choose my windows drive, the next button is blanked out, and the installer tells me it is a GPT partition - and I have no idea what means.

I have tried to re-format but that does not help either.

please help me solve this
 
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That means you have formatted the drive as a GPT (rather than MBR) drive. If it is a drive of 2TB or less, I would boot from the installer disk and select command prompt. Then type:
diskpart
list disk
select disk n (where n is your target disk to erase -- do not get this wrong)
clean

Then restart with the installer disk in to re-install Windows.

RealBeast

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That means you have formatted the drive as a GPT (rather than MBR) drive. If it is a drive of 2TB or less, I would boot from the installer disk and select command prompt. Then type:
diskpart
list disk
select disk n (where n is your target disk to erase -- do not get this wrong)
clean

Then restart with the installer disk in to re-install Windows.
 
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