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I tried reformatting a Gateway laptop I had for my brother.

UEFI mode - No bootable devices found, cannot boot from disk or boot from anything, disables all bootable options.

Legacy mode - Bootable devices and allows me to organize boot order and priority, but WILL NOT install ANY operating system on hard drives, "windows cannot be installed to this disk gpt". So I literally can't do anything. good game. Gateways are a joke.

Tried changing IDE TO AHCI and vice versa with every possible combination and not a single one worked.
 
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bobmanuk
some drives, if they have had partitions written in a certain way (GPT for example) will format but wont allow other files to be written.

if you are able to connect the hdd to another windows 7/8 pc, you can remove the partition as follows

open escalated cmd prompt (right click, run as administrator)
type DISKPART and press enter
type list disk. Make note of the disk number you want to delete
At the DISKPART prompt, type select disk <disknumber>
At the DISKPART prompt, type clean
At the DISKPART prompt, type convert mbr

you should now be able to install windows on the drive.
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some drives, if they have had partitions written in a certain way (GPT for example) will format but wont allow other files to be written.

if you are able to connect the hdd to another windows 7/8 pc, you can remove the partition as follows

open escalated cmd prompt (right click, run as administrator)
type DISKPART and press enter
type list disk. Make note of the disk number you want to delete
At the DISKPART prompt, type select disk <disknumber>
At the DISKPART prompt, type clean
At the DISKPART prompt, type convert mbr

you should now be able to install windows on the drive.
 
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This work, I also used the CLEAN ALL command because it still wouldn't let me install windows until then, but after it finally worked. Thanks.
 
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