GPT Partition ?

[chrisbram]

I have installed a second hard drive to my computer and partition 50GB of it aside to install windows 7 on. However when I select the drive to install windows 7 on it says "Windows can not be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style"
How do I partition the hard drive so it is not of this style?

[chrisbram]

I cant seem to install games onto this new drive either. When trying to install a game it says if you install onto that drive it may become unstable.

[kilgoretrout]

What OS are you running? You can't install win7 to a GPT partition but it can use them for data. For winxp, you need the 64bit version for GPT support.

GPT is a new and improved type of partition table; the standard type of partition table is called "MBR". GPT is standard on Macs, supported in linux, and, as noted above, has only limited support on windows.

If you are running windows, there's no reason to use GPT unless you want partitions larger than 2TB or need some of the other advaced features of GPT. Your easiest solution is to delete all the partitions on your second hard drive an repartition with a standard MBR style partition scheme.

[mrtube]

I ran into this problem with a drive at work. Interesting thing was I had to delete the partition at the command prompt. disk managment wouldnt let me. I was using windows 7.

Yet when I installed a fresh copy of 7 on a GPT partition that did allow me to just click delete.