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Format MBR

The document provides two solutions for fixing the "The selected disk is of the GPT partition style" error during a Windows system installation. The first solution wipes the hard drive by deleting all partitions and data before converting the disk from GPT to MBR format using Diskpart commands. The second solution converts the disk from GPT to MBR without data loss.

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Format MBR

The document provides two solutions for fixing the "The selected disk is of the GPT partition style" error during a Windows system installation. The first solution wipes the hard drive by deleting all partitions and data before converting the disk from GPT to MBR format using Diskpart commands. The second solution converts the disk from GPT to MBR without data loss.

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How to fix "The selected disk is of the GPT partition style"?

Please note that the first solutions wipes the hard drive before converting GPT to MBR, thus
you should backup in advance. If you do not want to do that, you can try the second
solution which converts GPT to MBR without data loss.

Solution 1: Wipe hard drive and convert to MBR using Diskpart

Step 1 Press keys Shift + F10 when you see the "The selected disk is of the GPT

partition style" error during system installation, which opens Command Prompt. If that does
not work, please go back to the first screen of the installation and press Shift + F10.

Step 2 Type diskpart in the command prompt and press Enter.

Step 3 Type command list disk and press Enter, which lists all disks connected to your

computer.

Step 4 Type select disk # and press Enter. Replace # with the disk number representing

the hard disk which is of GPT partition style.

Step 5 Type clean and press Enter. This command deleted all partitions and data from

the selected disk.

Step 6 Type convert mbr and press Enter. This command convert disk to MBR format.

You can exit Command Prompt when you see "DiskPart successfully converted selected disk
to MBR format".

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