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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Haus of Tech Support > Thinkpad 440s blackscreens after loading Windows (8.1)
 
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telcoM
Mar 21, 2009
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Voyager I posted:

Attempting to do a clean ISO install off a flash drive (the computer has no DVD drive) was stymied by an problem with drive formatting. I received the message “Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style”. I initially tried to install Windows 10 directly, but after encountering this issue made another copy with Windows 8.1 only to encounter the problem again. I'm not really sure where to go from here and am wary of formatting the drive with a dubious product key.

Googling the issue brought up mostly concerns regarding Windows 7 and is starting to get beyond my technical skills.

Are you trying to install a 32-bit or 64-bit version(s) of Windows?
I think only the 64-bit versions can handle a GPT-formatted system disk, but I might be wrong on that.

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