GPT partition error

My laptop is Hp pavilion 15 . The original system is windows8 which is already installed.
But i formatted the disk c where the windows installed while installing the windows 7 just because flashing the desktop . But i cant install the error becomes "The Selected disk is of the GPT partition style" . Then i inserted the windows 8 cd the Same Error became.
So Anybody can tel me What can i do now?
I have no windows in my latop

Thanks for the idea of booting in EFI mode. After looking around, though, it seems that I read as many "it didn't work/screwed up my drive" complaints as successes. Since I really know so little about it, I'm not that comfortable just trying to muddle my way through it. I'll keep looking into it though.
Should I gather at this point that the real problem is that BootCamp doesn't work correctly on Fusion Drives, or it's possibly a Mavericks or Windows 8 problem, and people here are just coming up with workarounds until Apple fixes it? Or is everything fine as far as Apple is concerned? I know I had no trouble installing BootCamp on my previous computer, a mid-2010 iMac running Mountain Lion and Windows 7.
Unfortunately, the Windows 7 I have is an upgrade from XP, and the BootCamp/Mavericks documentation said I couldn't use an upgrade, so I went out and bought Windows 8. Hate spending money on Windows, but especially when I can't use it!
Any other suggestions to get BootCamp up and running would still be appreciated!

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Hi,
Since we are still discussing the same problem, so I merged them.
I want to confirm some information. Is your computer boot in BIOS mode or UEFI mode? Open computer management->Disk management->Properties->Volumes.
Is your current partition type GPT or MBR?
For now,
starting with Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, all versions of Windows Server can use GPT partitioned disks for data. Booting is only supported for 64-bit editions
on Itanium-based systems. For windows 7, windows VISTA and window server 2008, Booting is only supported for 64-bit editions on UEFI-based systems.
So, the solution is either to change the boot mode or convert your disk. Remind, if you want to convert your disk, data on it should be cleared.
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Cannot install clean Windows 7 64-bit to GPT partition

ASUS Maximus VII Formula
HGST 4TB Deskstar NAS, SATA 3 (6 Gb/s), 7200 RPM, 64 MB
Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC)
Windows 7 Pro 64-bit SP1
SW_DVD5_Win_Pro_7w_SP1_64BIT_English_-2_MLF_X17-59279.ISO
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On a Windows 7 Pro 32-bit BIOS laptop, I used Disk Management snapin to initialize the virgin 4TB disc to GPT. In Properties, it said it was a GPT disc. I then created a 1.0 TB partition with Quick Format unchecked (equivalent to DISKPART > clean)
so it would check for bad sectors.
I placed the 4TB disc into the ASUS Maximus VII Formula computer.
I made sure the UEFI BIOS was set to only use UEFI mode.
I booted into the Window 7 Pro 64-bit SP1 dvd.
During boot, ASUS screen said it was in UEFI mode.
Windows installer loaded properly.
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"Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style."
Since the ASUS boot screen said I was in UEFI mode, why does it not let me install Windows to my 1 TB GPT partition?
I then deleted the 1.0 TB partition.
The partition was deleted leaving unallocated space.
I used NEW link to create a partition.
NEW did not work, it just left the unallocated space and did not create a partition.
Since the ASUS boot screen said I was in UEFI mode, why does it not create a GPT partition?
From the ASUS driver downloads page, I also tried loading the
"Intel_RAID_Win7-8-8-1_V13101058" 64-bit drivers during the installation process with no success.
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Hi,
How about your problem now? Based on my knowledge, Windows 7 X64 system is support GPT disk, but Windows 7 X32 system not. According to your description, your disk should be already GPT, this problem probably caused by Windows installation disk problem or
motherboard UEFI boot settings mistake.
Therefore, please check these two points for test. If problem persists, in my opinion, it would be better to contact ASUS suppoort for further assistance with this problem.
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support

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Now my laptop is not starting at all. Please help me as I really need to use my pc.
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The question is a bit ambiguos. Kindly confirm do you see the error message while installing Windows 7 or Windows 8.1?
If you're instaling Windows 7 and seeing the error, you need to perform the following:
Turn off the PC, and put in the Windows installation DVD or USB key.
Boot the PC to the DVD or USB key in Legacy BIOS mode (or non-UEFI). For more info, see Boot
to UEFI Mode or Legacy BIOS mode.
From inside Windows Setup, press Shift+F10 to open a command prompt window.
Open the diskpart tool:
diskpart
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list disk
Select the drive, and reformat it:
select disk <disk number>
clean
convert mbr
exit
Close the command prompt window.
Continue the Windows Setup installation.
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Thanks, we managed to clear GPT partition and continued the installation processs...
we have successfully installed Oracle Linux 5.5 on IBM - System X3650 M3 machine and later scrapped the Linux OS and Installed Windows 2008 OS for other demo purpose.
Now again we are trying to install the Oracle Linux on this machine and the machine is NOT detecting the network devices and the network configuration screen does not appear during the installations to assign the staticIP and the hostname to the machine.
Now, the Network Devices screen is NOT displaying during the installtion (where we have to enter the IP Address and hostname details)- the Network Devices Screen should come after the partition layout and GRUB boot loader screen.
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0b : 00.0 Ethernet controller : Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet
0b : 00.1 Ethernet controller : Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet
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lo
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inet addr 127.0.0.1 mask 255.0.0.0
usb0
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inet addr:169.254.95.120 Bcast:169.254.95.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0
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sit0
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Edited by: user13681259 on Jun 19, 2012 1:02 AM
Edited by: user13681259 on Jun 19, 2012 1:16 AM

The selected disk is of the GPT partition style - MBP 2013

Hi,
I get this error dialog in the windows 8.1 installer, when newly installing windows into a bootcamp created partition.
Machine:
* 2013 Macbook pro with retina display.
* 16GB RAM
* 1TB SSD
Reproduction:
* Use Bootcamp Assistant to create a USB stick with the Win8.1 Enterprise ISO, and the "Windows support files" (check the box in bootcamp assistant).
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   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
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   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         499.2 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
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   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *348.9 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 769DAB5A-31CE-4B1F-9A84-DE42C8DA5577
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CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 5D81016B-6058-418F-85AA-922C411579D3
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         499248103424 B (499.2 GB)
    Free Space:   150018965504 B (150.0 GB)
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    +-< Physical Volume 8B0989D4-963C-4350-B93F-BED8181E2771
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        Passphrase Required:     No
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          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
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         40     409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
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975503592    1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
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HT5628 Trying to Install Windows 8.1 on my late 2013 21.5" iMac. After I Format the Bootcamp partition, Windows Setup tells me "Windows can't be installed to this disk because it is GPT partitioned." Huh?

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http://www.qliktips.com/2012/11/fix-windows-8-boot-issue.html
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ht/rebuild-bcd-store-windows.htm
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Do you still have other solution ideas restore the booting or an approach how to unlock the GPT c: drive with Windows again ? I would appreciate that very much.

Hi，
According to your description,the system was damaged by the partition tool.
Since you upgraded to Windows 8.1,you cannot use Windows 8 recovery media to repair the system.
If you have some important data in the SSD,I suggest that you move the ssd to other computer,and backup the data.
As you said,you had the recovery USB stick inserted but it was never used so far.
For this issue,please change your BOIS setting for USB.
I suggest you use your recovery USB stick to reinstall your system.
Regards,
Kelvin Xu
TechNet Community Support

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