Soldato
OK.. so I've just built a PC for my nephews (2500k, H61 board, AMD 6850, 8GB RAM, XFX Pro 550W), and I tried to install Vista Ultimate 64 onto it using the old sata drive.
It throws up an error telling me the drive needs to be a GPT partition disk rather than MBR, because the motherboard is EFI.
I thought that was rather odd given that I've installed Windows 7 and Vista 64 bit ultimate on IDE drives and Sata drives before, and sure enough, even my latest 1TB disk (caviar black) is the MBR type.
I've hooked up the disk to my windows 7 machine, but the "convert to GPT" option is greyed out for all of my drives, let alone the poor old 160GB sata.
So... how can I get around this situation please? Do I need a specialist formatting tool or something?
It throws up an error telling me the drive needs to be a GPT partition disk rather than MBR, because the motherboard is EFI.
I thought that was rather odd given that I've installed Windows 7 and Vista 64 bit ultimate on IDE drives and Sata drives before, and sure enough, even my latest 1TB disk (caviar black) is the MBR type.
I've hooked up the disk to my windows 7 machine, but the "convert to GPT" option is greyed out for all of my drives, let alone the poor old 160GB sata.
So... how can I get around this situation please? Do I need a specialist formatting tool or something?