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(long story) Alright, so I have had this same exact harddrive for a while, and out of nowhere, I get a message: Microsoft Windows has stopped responding. I think, oh ****! I gotta restart it! And so I hard-restart it and now windows won't load. I get the bios, but not the OS. So I try to save my files and reinstall windows7 by using a linux usb to save my stuff, except that doesnt work. So I accept my fate, use GParted to format the partition to NTFS and then I restart and boot up from the windows install disc. And I go to install windows on the empty partition (also I guess I should mention there is another partition that's 100mb and says sytem reserved, I never touched that one) and I get this and I quote "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks." and thats it. And the weird thing is, I installed win7 on that SAME harddrive before with now problems. So did my Hard drive poop out on me? Is windows just being a butt? Help pls, I NEED my computer, I am in a programming for game design class and I need my PC in order to make my end of the year project. (Oh, I guess I should also mention I am currently using a Lubuntu usb stick to type this... if that is relevant at all...) Oh, and the windows version is 7 ultimate.
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ok here are pictures of my bios settings, When I load up my pc, on the bottom it says press f2 for setup, and this is the menus i get. (and for some reason the pictures are upside down, i tried editing them so they would be right side up, but no banana... !\[\](http://fud.community.services.support.microsoft.com/Fud/FileDownloadHandler.ashx?fid=0deaae39-ad8a-41ca-a58e-91388e1d6bd3)
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Again, what are the exact settings choices?
It is often easiest to spot the correct settings if you can take pictures. You can upload them with the Attach Images button in reply box.
Earlier there were no UEFI settings found, now you refer to "all the different mbr/gpt and the sata ahci/compatible mode combinations possible." I need to see those and then can usually spot them.
You never replied what the other choices are for Compatibility Mode setting you found.
At any time are you seeing a UEFI DVD drive choice in Boot Menu? Did you check after changing to Compatibility mode?
In about 10,000 UEFI cases I've helped with in Forums since it's release, we've never not been able to get it installed where there is close cooperation with no skipped or ignored steps.
ok so i still have no uefi settings anywhere on anything, ive tried all the different mbr/gpt and the sata ahci/compatible mode combinations possible but i get the same error: "Windows cannot beninstalled to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu."
