Common errors: Installing Windows 10 without disk(or any) errors

Yesterday I was installing the latest Windows 10 Pro on my laptop. And I figured out the hard way to do it right.

Generally installing Windows OS on any computer using USB has these steps involved.

1. Download official .iso file
2. Create a bootable USB drive using Rufus.
3. Plug it to the computer.
4. Install OS using BIOS

Solution for: Windows cannot be installed to this disk. the selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI system, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks.

The solution for this is choose these options:

• [x] Partition scheme: MBR
• [x] Target system: BIOS or UEFI

It happened to me when I created a bootable USB drive using Rufus default options. The default options that I have used(which caused the error): Partition scheme: GPT and Target system: UEFI(non CSM). So avoid this.

Solution for: Lost partitions after running diskpart commands(after seeing some youtube videos)

If you just run one or two commands and noticed that there are no drive showing in This PC or My Computer. Then I have a process by which you can recover them.

• [x] Go to run(Windows + R)
• [x] Type diskmgmt.msc
• [x] Then if you see all the drives intact, continue to next step
• [x] Right Click on each partition, and select Change Drive letter and paths...
• [x] If you see the box empty, then click Add
• [x] There will be a new letter selected as drive label(This is what we want)
• [x] Click OK

Wow, you got your drives back, enjoy :)

Errors I have got(after reading this post, you won't get these errors, may be ☺)

1. Windows cannot be installed to this disk. the selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI system, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks
2. I had run some diskpart commands to remove the above error, but I lost some of my partitions.

If you have any other error, please comment below

Last Updated on May 02, 2020