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Old 22nd February 2014
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I tried to install FreeBSD, but when I come to the partition sector it told me that I have a GPT table but I have not, is a MBR disc. It only see my hardrive and not my partitions that I have to my Windows 7. I have a free space for FreeBSD of 100GB.

I want to dual boot FreeBSD with my Windows 7.

I tried to install Slackware and that was not any problem. So something are very strange here.
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Old 23rd February 2014
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When you get to the partitioning section, do you see free space? You can always choose BSD label. (I've only done it with Linux distributions on a disk, and the way it has worked is that I would create the free space first, then highlight the disk, e.g., ada0, click create, and it would create a partition, where I could choose the size. I then click create again, and can create mountpoints.)

I don't know if that's any help, though, I have not tried sharing a drive with Windows.
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Old 23rd February 2014
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I think perhaps it matters that the disk are on 1 TB and my 100GB free space for FreeBSD are the last space on the disc.
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Old 23rd February 2014
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Your disk could be GPT formatted with a proctective MBR. This combination is used so that an disk partitioning tool that only understands MBR formatted disks will not disrupt the GPT partitions.

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr.../gg463525.aspx and
the beginning of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
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