4 partitions by defining which ones are to be logical partitions after conversion, I have not tested this. Boot your Fedora 16 Live media and wait for your session to start. If you're having troubles booting, press Tab at the boot loader screen and try booting with the nomodeset parameter added. Depending on your graphics card, you'll either be presented with the new Gnome 3 Shell or with the traditional interface. Start a terminal session by putting your mouse in the top right corner of the screen and typing "terminal" in the search (Gnome Shell) or by selecting Applications > System Tools > Terminal (traditional interface) Install gdisk:su -yum -y install gdiskThis may take a few moments. Make a backup of your current GPT scheme:gdisk -b sda-preconvert.gpt /dev/sda Now we will attempt to convert your GPT disk layout to MS-DOS/MBR. Start gdisk:gdisk /dev/sda You should be prompted with:Command (? for help): Press r to start recovery/transformation. Press g to convert GPT to MBR. Press p to preview the converted MBR partition table. Make any modification necessary to the partition layout. See Rod Smith's Converting to or from GPT page for more details on this. When you're happy with the MS-DOS/MBR layout, press w to write changes to the disk. Shutdown Fedora 16 and boot from the Windows 7 installation media Enter your language & keyboard layout and then select the option to repair your computer in the bottom left corner. From the available options, select Startup Repair. Windows will ask for a reboot. Follow the previous three steps again to boot the Windows 7 installation and run startup repair Once again, boot the Windows 7 installation media but this time opt to open a command prompt instead of choosing startup repair. Type:bootrec /scanosbootrec /rebuildbcdbootrec /fixmbrbootrec /fixboot Close the command prompt and run Startup Repair one last time. That's it! You should now have a bootable installation of Windows 7 on a MBR partition layout. References Rod Smith's Gigabyte's Hybrid EFI Rod Smith's Converting to or from GPT Rod Smith's Repairing GPT disks Microsoft KB927392: How to use the Bootrec.exe tool in the Windows Recovery Environment to troubleshoot and repair startup issues in Windows" />
