MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
woke up this morning to find 'important updates are ready for your computer'... so i installed them and rebooted, and now Windows won't boot.
"The system has detected unauthorised changes to your boot device" was the error message, which meant i couldn't get out of BIOS. So i stuck my windows disc in a clicked 'repair'.. it advised me to unplug all devices and reboot... which i did and got the 'unauthorised changes boot device' message again, so went through the 'repair' thing again, only to be told that my windows disk is not compatible with my installation. (it's the same disc as the current install) . so i decided to just reinstall Windows and start again, only to be given a list of partitions on my drive and "windows cannot be installed in this disc, the selected disk is of the gpt partition style" ...but windows is (was) installed in this drive, you fe*@#ing t%@tting thing!!! So i formatted that partitian, expecting plain sailing but no... windows cannot be installed in this disc, the selected disk is of the gpt partition style.
I've had a look on the microsft support pages but their resolution doesn't comply with option on the screen (eg. click 'drive options' but there is no 'drive options' to click) ...so that's no help
it's an SSD drive with three partitions and windows is asking where i want to install it:
disk 0 partition 1 - size 100MB - free space 78MB - type System
disk 0 partition 2 - size 128MB - free space 128MB - type MSR Reserved
disk 0 partition 3 - size 223GB - free space 223GB - type Primary
I have options to delete, format, load driver (can't find disk)... but not sure what to do?
I'm at the stage where a full reinstall is the only option, so maybe formating the whole drive is what i need to do... just not sure how.. any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
cheers peeps
"The system has detected unauthorised changes to your boot device" was the error message, which meant i couldn't get out of BIOS. So i stuck my windows disc in a clicked 'repair'.. it advised me to unplug all devices and reboot... which i did and got the 'unauthorised changes boot device' message again, so went through the 'repair' thing again, only to be told that my windows disk is not compatible with my installation. (it's the same disc as the current install) . so i decided to just reinstall Windows and start again, only to be given a list of partitions on my drive and "windows cannot be installed in this disc, the selected disk is of the gpt partition style" ...but windows is (was) installed in this drive, you fe*@#ing t%@tting thing!!! So i formatted that partitian, expecting plain sailing but no... windows cannot be installed in this disc, the selected disk is of the gpt partition style.
I've had a look on the microsft support pages but their resolution doesn't comply with option on the screen (eg. click 'drive options' but there is no 'drive options' to click) ...so that's no help
it's an SSD drive with three partitions and windows is asking where i want to install it:
disk 0 partition 1 - size 100MB - free space 78MB - type System
disk 0 partition 2 - size 128MB - free space 128MB - type MSR Reserved
disk 0 partition 3 - size 223GB - free space 223GB - type Primary
I have options to delete, format, load driver (can't find disk)... but not sure what to do?
I'm at the stage where a full reinstall is the only option, so maybe formating the whole drive is what i need to do... just not sure how.. any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
cheers peeps