Thursday, April 9, 2020

Changing HDD Partition GPT to MBR with DISKPART utility for WINDOWS

DISKPART is quite capable WINDOWS/DOS utility for all sort of HDD related issues.
Often while performing clean install HDD drive doesn't get selected for installation an error CAN'T USE CURRENT PARTITION gets displayed, the issue common & can easily be resolved by changing the partition from MBR to GPT.
  1. Run command prompt CMD as admin
  2. Type DISKPART hit enter now diskpart, utility will start
  3. Type LIST DISK  list of HDD disk will be displayed, now have to select the appropriate disk 
  4. Type SELECT DISK 0 (0/1/2) hit enterdisk will be get selected, now to clean disk 
  5. Type CLEAN command hit enter, finally to convert disk partition 
  6. Type CONVERT GPT (GPT/MBR) hit enter disk partition will change. Now make partition primary 
  7. Type CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY hit enter, to set file format (FAT/NTFS)
  8. Type FORMAT QUICK FS=NTFS hit enter, finally assigning a drive letter
  9. Type ASSIGN hit enter, to exit DISKPART
  10. Type EXIT hit enter.
Refer to below Screen shot for reference

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