https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-microsoft/install-windows-using-uefi-and-gpt/m-p/5341219#M12498 <P>Hello everyone,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I've received my new laptop (Probook 4730s) and the first thing i did is formatting it!</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>And for this formatting i would drop MBR and then use GPT. Indeed this laptop have a UEFI so theoretically Windows Server 2008 R2 64bit sould have the ability to boot. Unfortunately it's impossible to install it. Windows installer said when i select my partition this error: " Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is the GPT partition style".</P><P>Does somebody have a solution to it? it already try many tutorials on the web and nothing realy works....</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks for the help!</P> Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:38:25 GMT Cristallix 2011-09-22T16:38:25Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-microsoft/install-windows-using-uefi-and-gpt/m-p/5341219#M12498 <P>Hello everyone,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I've received my new laptop (Probook 4730s) and the first thing i did is formatting it!</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>And for this formatting i would drop MBR and then use GPT. Indeed this laptop have a UEFI so theoretically Windows Server 2008 R2 64bit sould have the ability to boot. Unfortunately it's impossible to install it. Windows installer said when i select my partition this error: " Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is the GPT partition style".</P><P>Does somebody have a solution to it? it already try many tutorials on the web and nothing realy works....</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks for the help!</P> Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:38:25 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-microsoft/install-windows-using-uefi-and-gpt/m-p/5341219#M12498 Cristallix 2011-09-22T16:38:25Z