When you attempt to install Windows 10/8/7 on your computer and the Windows Set up might reposts "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style." This is one of the common errors occur during Windows installation, and another similar error message is "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table." For general users, it is not that easy to get clear on what PGT partition style is and what MBR means.

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

Solution : 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".