Partition problem while installing Win8.1 on MacBookPro running OSX 10.9
I am using Boot Camp v.5.1.0 (473) to install Windows 8.1 Pro and I am facing the following partition problem.
"Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, windows can only be installed to GPT disks."
I am using a MacBook Pro 13” Mid 2012, 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5, 4GB 1600 MHz DDR3 running OS X Mavericks 10.9.
I had 334 GB free out 500GB and have partitioned 56GB of this for Windows installation.
I am installing from a USB and I have the downloaded support software on the same USB.
I reached at the partition selection dialogue. I click on 'Drive 0 Partition 4: Bootcamp' and click Format, then OK.
When this is complete, it changes the partition name to 'Drive 0 Partition 4' and still has the warning 'Windows can't be installed on Drive 0 Partition 4. (show details)' at bottom of the dialog.
When I click ok on the warning it prompt me above error and Next button is not visible to go ahead.
Following are commands and respective output:
$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 443.2 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data 56.0 GB disk0s4
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: CD_partition_scheme *259.1 MB disk1
1: Apple_partition_scheme 225.6 MB disk1s0
2: Apple_partition_map 17.9 KB disk1s0s1
3: Apple_HFS Idea Net Setter 17.2 MB disk1s0s2
$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=500107862016; sectorsize=512; blocks=976773168
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 976773167
start size index contents
0 1 MBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640 865718952 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
866128592 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
867398128 1552
867399680 109373440 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
976773120 15
976773135 32 Sec GPT table
976773167 1 Sec GPT header
$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 409640 - 865718952] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 866128592 - 1269536] Darwin Boot
4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 867399680 - 109373440] HPFS/QNX/AUX
Please let me know if any one had any success with this problem.
Thanks,
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9)