Have you tried to low level format the drive?
> My sister bought an HP Envy computer, which I had to downgrade from Win8
> to Win7 (64 bit). She's legally blind, so needs a lot of visual help to
> see the computer. However, that's not the question...
>
> Somehow she screwed up the install, then trying to do a system restore
> only resulted in things getting worse, so I resorted to a reinstall.
> When I originally installed, I cleared out all the partitions, then
> created a new one, which meant, I had one for 100MB and another for the
> balance of the 1T disk. Now, when I went to reinstall, there were 3
> partitions, the extra one was 78MB and suddenly they were all GPT which
> meant I could not install Win7 to any of them. As far as I know, I
> shouldn't have been able to install Win7 to begin with if the partitions
> were GPT.
>
> Any idea how this could happen? I want to do something to make sure it
> doesn't again. Right now, the only thing I can think of is that she got
> some kind of malware.
>
> Thanks...Steve
>
