hello guys... i have a dell inspiron 15R 5521 laptop....i currently have windows 8.1 64 bit running on my machine....i want to try the new windows 10 preview...but for that i have to dual boot my system by installing it on the other partition or install it on any partition using vhd or lastly use virtualbox....i went with the first option...so i prepared the bootable usb drive and booted it....but when selecting where to install the os the partition which i selected wasn't getting accepted...it showed the error that the disk is of gpt partition style so it can't be installed....since i can't change the disk partition to MBR without deleting all the partitions i tried 2nd option which is more convenient...so i created a vhd (virtual hard disk) of 100 gb using the disk management utlity of windows....and then i booted the usb drive....then i used the command prompt to select the vdisk file using disk part utility....it got selected successfully....but then when i select it to install and when i click next it show the error "windows cannot be installed on the location u selected. please check your media drive...error 0x80300024"... things i have tried 1.changed the disk mode in the bios from ahci to ata no progress. 2. formatted the vhd file with ntfs and exfat file system....no progress 3. converted the vhd from mbr to gpt...both method doesn't work 4. tried to install in both uefi as well as legacy modes.still no sucess.. Note: i tried the os in virtuakbox and its working..thank you.
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