Install W7 on second GPT partition

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legno-legnuzzo

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Hello recently i've bought a SSD 250gb Samsung.

My plan is to have two Operative System in this disk, Windows 10 and Windows 7.
The problem it's that Windows 10 requires GPT and windows 7 MBR type of partition.

So, that's what i did: I converted this ssd disk to GPT type to install W10.

This disk got 183/256 GB reserved for W10 and 48GB/256 GB for windows 7(as i planned), but now i can't install windows7 as it requires MBR disk.

is there any solution to install windows 7 to the second partition that i created?
 
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Win7 64 bit supports GPT. You need to run the installer in UEFI mode though. Instead of setting the USB/DVD drive as the first boot drive, leave this set to the normal boot drive and use the Function Key option to select the boot drive presented during startup (same time as press Del to enter setup is) On this new window select the UEFI option that matches your win7 install media. it should be listed with UEFI: in front of it.

Your other possible option is to turn off UEFI mode and set it to Legacy in your bios and install win10 in MBR also.
Not all motherbds support turning off UEFI mode these days. Remember that your largest supported drive size is 2TB with legacy mode
 
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legno-legnuzzo

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yea, i got USB with UEFI before on it, i can see it from bios.

But when i boot it, nothing happen, it just goes to w10.

If i start w7 without UEFI, there's the installation but as it's not UEFI, i can't install it on GPT disk.

I tried with another USB and same result, that's really weird indeed.

I remember in my last hard disk i had W7 and W10 without problems, something must be wrong but i' ve no clue

Edit: is it normal before my SSD disk, there's Windows boot manager?

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Windows 7 is near dead, anyway (no newer chipsets/CPUs supported, no DX12, etc.); once I got 10 working a couple years ago without issues, I nuked my backup image of the original 7 including it's factory restore partition within a week of going to Win10

(I know I hated Win10 it's first few months, but, by the time it went out of Beta and was official, it was fine, IMO)
 
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