MBR partition table? Windows 7 won't install on hard drive that previously had win7.

Anonymous
2016-02-13T12:25:28+00:00

(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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  3. Anonymous
    2016-02-15T01:26:44+00:00

    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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  4. Anonymous
    2016-02-15T01:27:27+00:00

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-02-15T01:28:14+00:00

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