Installing windows 7 on Lenovo T440s

Hello guys,
I'm having a problem to install windows 7 pro on my Lenovo t440s ( that came with windows 8 ) using a memory stick.
I went to the windows 7 installation menu and formatted the Windows 8 partition, so now I have :
Disk 0 Partition 1: WINRE_DRV 1GB OEM
Disk 0 Partition 2 : System_DRV 260MB System
Disk 0 Partition 3 128MB MSR
Disk 0 Unnallocated Space 225GB ( it was the old windows 8 partition )
Disk 0 Partition 4: Lenovo_Recory 12.1GB OEM 
However, when i try to use the free space to install the windows 7 i get this error :
" Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partitions style. " 
I tried to bot using Legacy Boot Only and after using UEFI/Legacy Boot and nothing changed, I'm still receiving the same error.
I read that I have to select each of the partitions on the drive, and select Delete. Then the drive will show a single area of unallocated space that I should use to install windows.
My question is, there is any problem in delete all my partitions of Lenovo T440s? Can I delete the OEM partitions?
What will happen after?
Thank you for the attention.
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IIRC, you need to use UEFI with a GPT partitioned disk.
If you wanted to keep Windows 8, you should have made recovery disks before nuking it. Otherwise, just nuke the partition table and start from scratch with either Legacy + MBR or UEFI + GPT.
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