Partitioning of the problems when installing Windows 7

I have a HP Compaq CQ58 supplied with Windows 8. I switched to Ubuntu and I'm doing a clean install of Windows 7. Installation came at a prompt asking "Where do you want to install Windows?" and I have three partitions:

Disk 0 Partition 1 - 94.0 MB system
Disk 0 Partition 2-296, 4 GB primary
Disk 0 Partition 3-1, 6 GB primary

When you select one of them, I get "Windows cannot be installed to Partiion Dis 0 x." On the 1 (System) partition, the details are:

Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is the GPT partition style.

Windows cannot be installed to this hard disk space. The partition is a partition of EFI (ESP) system.

On Partition 2 (primary), the details just say:

Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is the GPT partition style.

And on the Partition (primary) 3, tell the details:

Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is the GPT partition style.

Windows cannot be installed to this hard disk space. Windows must be installed on a partition formatted in NTFS.

Windows cannot be installed to this hard disk space. The partition is of an unknown type.

Well, I had nothing in particular requiring a backup (it is a computer of leisure, all of our important data are on other devices), then I hit the "Format" button on all three in turn try to get the installation to run on one of them. If any OS at this point is completely erased. I need to know, now, what to do. I'm not comfortable with my computer knowledge to go and delete partitions without professional opinion. I'm not used to have more than one partition and wouldn't mind consolidating unless HP has good reasons to keep them separate.

Hello

There is no reason to keep these partitions and you can remove them using the disk management on the following installation disc.

Left click a partition for highlight.

Click the blue link "drive Options (Advanced).

Select the option 'delete '.

Repeat this step for each partition listed.

Once completed, you should see only 1 entry showing that "the unallocated space on disk 0.

Click on the button 'Next' operation of installation of Windows 7.

Be aware that Windows 7 will also create a "System" of about 100 MB hidden partition that contains the files and start the recovery environment.

Kind regards

DP - K

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