Installing Vista?

icecold726 · 12-25-2007, 02:05 AM

Hello all,

I bought Vista and am trying to install it on my sister's laptop. Her Dell HD died so I bought and installed another one. Obviously it is blank so I booted the Vista disk and it's telling me that Vista cannot install on this partition because it is a GPT.

Any idea what I can do now? It doesnt ask me to partition it as a NTFS or FAT32.

Any ideas? Thanks.

icecold726 · 12-25-2007, 02:15 AM

BTW,

I tried converting it to an MBR from the Vista disk Command prompt but its telling me that the disk is not empty (even though I deleted it and repartitioned it).

12-25-2007, 02:05 AM	#1 (permalink)
icecold726 Bronze Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 26	Installing Vista? Hello all, I bought Vista and am trying to install it on my sister's laptop. Her Dell HD died so I bought and installed another one. Obviously it is blank so I booted the Vista disk and it's telling me that Vista cannot install on this partition because it is a GPT. Any idea what I can do now? It doesnt ask me to partition it as a NTFS or FAT32. Any ideas? Thanks.

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12-25-2007, 02:15 AM	#2 (permalink)
icecold726 Bronze Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 26	BTW, I tried converting it to an MBR from the Vista disk Command prompt but its telling me that the disk is not empty (even though I deleted it and repartitioned it).