"partition is of an unrecognized type"
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2017 4:38 pm
A looooonngg story...
I have BIBM installed on a hard drive on which there are 3 other partitions. The second partition is empty, the third has W 7, the fourth is empty.
I was running out of room on the third partition "C" drive so I bought a larger drive and used IFW suite to copy my old disk to new with the image scaled to target. This worked well.
But I also wanted to install Windows 7 on partition 4 of the new drive so that I can sysprep it and get ready to clear out the old Windows 7 install on partition 3. When I booted to my retail W 7 disk at the "press any key..." message, and got to the part where I am to choose a partition I was told Windows couldn't be installed on the 4th partition because of a GPT issue. So I went back to BIOS and there found a setting that supposedly supports both UEFI and Legacy, and only UEFI, and only Legacy so I chose legacy. Then went about booting again.
This time, I had to delete partition 4 (or so I thought) and repartition 4 and format. The Windows install proceeded.
I was very happy until I rebooted. At this point I couldn't get to BIBM as it wasn't an option....in other words the EMBR message never appeared, grrrr. So I re copied from the old hard drive to new again this morning and installed the DVD, rebooted and this time waited for a second "press any key..." message because I had researched and found the first message boots you into a GPT install environment and the second into MBR which is what I want.
So I get to the point where my 4 partitions show up in Win 7 DVD on drive zero and now the message is "Windows cannot be installed to this hard disk space. The partitions is of an unrecognized type." The thing is I had used BIBM to format this partition on the smaller hard drive and assumed that would be good enough when it was restored to the new bigger hard drive.
My questions are.. Did BIBM get it wrong, Did IFW get it wrong or is not capable of doing what I want? I don't know.
I've been pretty lucky with Win 7 and haven't had to reinstall these past 4 or 5 years. My understanding is Windows 7 will install to a drive that is already partitioned and formatted NTFS without the small boot partition so that is what I am trying to do.
I guess I can just get a small drive and make two NTFS partitions and install Win 7 there then copy it over to a partition on my bigger drive but I should think I can do the same thing with the one I will use permanently.
Can you provide any insight into what I am doing wrong or how to proceed to install Win 7 on my 4th partition without wiping out BIBM and having to start over there? When this happens of course, I am unable to boot to my old Win 7 partition to look for a solution so I am trying to avoid a lot of experimentation.
Any thoughts?
I have BIBM installed on a hard drive on which there are 3 other partitions. The second partition is empty, the third has W 7, the fourth is empty.
I was running out of room on the third partition "C" drive so I bought a larger drive and used IFW suite to copy my old disk to new with the image scaled to target. This worked well.
But I also wanted to install Windows 7 on partition 4 of the new drive so that I can sysprep it and get ready to clear out the old Windows 7 install on partition 3. When I booted to my retail W 7 disk at the "press any key..." message, and got to the part where I am to choose a partition I was told Windows couldn't be installed on the 4th partition because of a GPT issue. So I went back to BIOS and there found a setting that supposedly supports both UEFI and Legacy, and only UEFI, and only Legacy so I chose legacy. Then went about booting again.
This time, I had to delete partition 4 (or so I thought) and repartition 4 and format. The Windows install proceeded.
I was very happy until I rebooted. At this point I couldn't get to BIBM as it wasn't an option....in other words the EMBR message never appeared, grrrr. So I re copied from the old hard drive to new again this morning and installed the DVD, rebooted and this time waited for a second "press any key..." message because I had researched and found the first message boots you into a GPT install environment and the second into MBR which is what I want.
So I get to the point where my 4 partitions show up in Win 7 DVD on drive zero and now the message is "Windows cannot be installed to this hard disk space. The partitions is of an unrecognized type." The thing is I had used BIBM to format this partition on the smaller hard drive and assumed that would be good enough when it was restored to the new bigger hard drive.
My questions are.. Did BIBM get it wrong, Did IFW get it wrong or is not capable of doing what I want? I don't know.
I've been pretty lucky with Win 7 and haven't had to reinstall these past 4 or 5 years. My understanding is Windows 7 will install to a drive that is already partitioned and formatted NTFS without the small boot partition so that is what I am trying to do.
I guess I can just get a small drive and make two NTFS partitions and install Win 7 there then copy it over to a partition on my bigger drive but I should think I can do the same thing with the one I will use permanently.
Can you provide any insight into what I am doing wrong or how to proceed to install Win 7 on my 4th partition without wiping out BIBM and having to start over there? When this happens of course, I am unable to boot to my old Win 7 partition to look for a solution so I am trying to avoid a lot of experimentation.
Any thoughts?