I had only Ubuntu installed in my system. I formatted the drive in which Ubuntu was installed and trying to install the windows 7 from past 4 days.
Initially Windows was showing an alert saying "Windows can't be installed in this disk. Select Disk has MBR style partition." For this I did following:
- Booted the system in Ubuntu(Try Ubuntu without installing).
- Ran
sudo gdisk /dev/sda
. - selected
n
(for new partition)... in the end I selectedGUID
as0700
(Microsoft Basic Data).
Then I tried booting system again in windows Then it says "windows cannot be installed to this disk. the selected disk is of the gpt partition style."
I tried to do some other stuff too, I tried to select ef00
(EFI System
Didn't work), 0c01
(Microsoft Reserverd
didn't work).
I tried few stuff in windows too, using Diskpart
, according to net tutorials, I need to run clean
(which will wipe all the data from other partitions too), but I don't want to format my drive.
Please help, let me know if you need anything else.
PS: I have Followed -this link- too, so please don't suggest this or mark it as duplicate.