It worked in my 2011 iMac with Yosemite installed and now also with windows 8.1 Pro. Back to the windows installation, the system asks to install windows in the free space and allows to finish the installation. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks.' The first time I tried with the partition formatted, the second. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. Actually, this problem happens because when installing Windows 11, 10, 8, 7 on a disk of GPT partition style, which is configured with UEFI boot mode, but apparently, your PC employs legacy BIOS boot mode that supports MBR disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style.
When performing Windows installation or upgrade on a PC of Dell, HP, Lenovo, you may receive a message that Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The partition for Win 8 has 48 GB, but the install is failing: 'Windows cannot be installed to this disk. When attempting to install Windows 7 or 8 on a system using the internal SAS controller for the hard drives, you may receive the message 'Windows cannot be installed to disk partition '. Cause of Windows cannot be installed to this disk (GPT) error. If the video does help try the fix below.įor me, it was possible to avoid the error “the selected disk has an MBR partition table on EFI partition, windows can only be installed to GPT disk” in the following way: Back to OSX, I used “Disk Utility” to remove the windows partition leaving its space FREE (i.e.: I left only the OSX partition and removed totally the windows partition previously created with bootcamp). Setting up a dual boot with Win 7圆4 on a 120GB SSD. This video will show you how to Fix Error: Windows cannot be installed to this disk. ○○○○○○ Support while shopping at Amazon ○○○○○○
