netizen3000
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Hi guys,
I was helping my friend to down grade my friends hp pavillion g6 laptop to windows 8. We had problems booting the disk(the disk wasn't listed as bootable device) but then in internet we saw that legacy boot mode has to be enabled so we did that and it solved the problem of booting. Then while installing we used custom mode(because my friend has important files in the other drives) and we deleted all partition except the partition containing the data to be saved. But after that we coudn't create a new drive it says can't create a partition with some error. we tried reducing the size of new partition it did n't work. The we chose the recovery option and selected automatic recovery then rebooted to our surprise there was a drive created with additonal drives that we had deleted but with his all other data intact. Then we proceeded to install windows 8 into the the newly appeared drive but to our horror it shows an exclamation mark that windows can't be installed onto the drive because the drive is in gpt format. The only way through this is by disabiling the legacy mode from BIOS menu, but if we disable that then we can't boot to the DVD. So we are in a helpless situation please help guys.
I was helping my friend to down grade my friends hp pavillion g6 laptop to windows 8. We had problems booting the disk(the disk wasn't listed as bootable device) but then in internet we saw that legacy boot mode has to be enabled so we did that and it solved the problem of booting. Then while installing we used custom mode(because my friend has important files in the other drives) and we deleted all partition except the partition containing the data to be saved. But after that we coudn't create a new drive it says can't create a partition with some error. we tried reducing the size of new partition it did n't work. The we chose the recovery option and selected automatic recovery then rebooted to our surprise there was a drive created with additonal drives that we had deleted but with his all other data intact. Then we proceeded to install windows 8 into the the newly appeared drive but to our horror it shows an exclamation mark that windows can't be installed onto the drive because the drive is in gpt format. The only way through this is by disabiling the legacy mode from BIOS menu, but if we disable that then we can't boot to the DVD. So we are in a helpless situation please help guys.
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