Guys I need help
My dad bought a TravelMate 5742Z laptop made by Acer. It contains Linpus Lite (or something like that) Linux based OS. My dad doesn't really like it, so he wants Windows 7 and that's where the problems begin.
I have installed Windows 7 on like 3 computers with no problems and this is making me mad.
I boot the windows 7 CD on the said laptop.
I select all the shit. And when it goes to partition selection it starts to fail.
It says there are 2 partitions of disk 0, both are called 1 and 2
One's 4gb and it's type is system
The other's 294gb and primary
The problem is, it says at the bottom "Windows cannot be installed to Disk 0 Partition 1"
The format and shit options are greyed out
Same goes with partition 2
When I ask for details it says "Windows cannot be installed to this hard disk space. Windows must be installed to a partition formatted as NTFS.
Windows cannot be installed to this hard disk space. The partition is of an unrecognized type"
What the fuck do I do
Do I need to delete the partitions or something, because delete option is available.
I really don't want to fuck up. The laptop is like 2 hours old and my dad would murder me if I fucked it up (ok, maybe he won't murder me, but he would surely murder my wallet).
Please help.
[editline]21st September 2011[/editline]
In boot order the DVD rom is the first to boot if that changes anything.
[editline]21st September 2011[/editline]
Also, in this case, what would happen if I deleted the partitions mentioned?
Yes, delete the partitions, then hit format, use NTFS.
[QUOTE=Protocol7;32408671]Yes, delete the partitions, then hit format, use NTFS.[/QUOTE]
After I delete the partitions, will they be displayed as "unallocated space" or some shit?
[editline]21st September 2011[/editline]
Ok, deleted partitions and Windows is installing.
Thank you for help.
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