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An already installed Windows will refuse to boot when the boot mode or the partitioning scheme is changed. Also, older Windows systems don't support GPT (or EFI) at all, demanding that a BIOS or the EFI-CSM along with an MBR must be used. If Windows supports EFI it can be re-installed in the native UEFI mode and the GPT partitioning scheme, as well as Linux; see section UEFI with GPT.