Windows 10 Installation - woes

[Ray Singh]

Hi All. I am trying to get a laptop set up for the childrens home schooling and have bought a laptop and seperatly bought SW from Unity Software.

I have followed the instructions carefully and am now at the point where the machine is asking "Where do you want to install Windows?"

I am presented with:

Name Total Size Free Space Type

Drive 0 Partition 1 499.0MB 485.0MB Recovery
Drive 0 Partition 2 499.0MB 485.0MB System
Drive 0 Partition 3 128.0MB 128.0MB Primary
Drive 0 Partition 4 236.8GB 236.7GB Primary
Drive 0 Partition 5 500MB 500MB Primary
Drive 0 Unallocated Space 81.0MB 81.0MB

I have tried to change the allocation to:

Drive 0 Unallocated Space 1.1GB 1.1GB
Drive 0 Partition 1 236.8GB 236.7GB Primary
Drive 0 Unallocated Space 581.0MB 581.0MB

However, when i try to install on any of the above partitions I get:

Cannot install as partition is of GPT style

Any ideas how to format this correctly to just get windows to install?

[Ray Singh]

Answering my own question.

Deleting all but the primary worked.

[bangerhoarder]

You should be able to expand the primary partition into the contiguous unallocated space after install, if you’re bothered. A clean install can be put onto a disk with no partitions at all - it’ll sort that during the installation.