Mavericks won't install, GUID Partition

I have a Macbook Pro (Late 2008) and when I try and install Mavericks it tells me the Disk needs to be GUID partition (see image below):
Here is the HArd Drive specs from the System Profiler;
What are my options?
Thanks

David Bridle wrote:
I have a Macbook Pro (Late 2008) and when I try and install Mavericks it tells me the Disk needs to be GUID partition
What are my options?
Thanks
Do you have a Backup? (You're going to have to erase and re-partiton your Macintosh HD to GUID)

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