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Using Gparted to install Windows

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Hello,

I have a netbook that originally came with only Ubuntu. I wanted to install Windows and since I don't have an optical CD drive, I booted the Windows 7 ISO from a USB stick to install it. When my PC starts, I get to the Windows installation until it asks me to choose a partition to install WINDOWS: the only problem is that none of my partitions work, showing this error message:

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So I found out that I needed to modify them using GParted in liveUSB: which I did, but I ended up here without knowing how to proceed: can you help me?

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Thank you very much.

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jns55
 
Hello,
The problem is that your disk is partitioned in GPT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
Windows is not compatible with this type of partitioning.
The first idea that comes to me would be to remove all the partitions and start a fresh installation on the blank disk, but since I am not precisely familiar with this type of partitioning, I advise caution and suggest waiting for more qualified individuals to confirm the method.
Furthermore, I am not sure that modification is possible with gparted because, if I understood correctly what I read, there seems to be a mechanism preventing uncontrolled modification of the partitions...
However, what surprises me is the presence of fat32 and ntfs partitions on a PC sold with Linux! There must be an OS somewhere.
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