Windows 10: "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style"

Hello everyone/anyone willing to help. I'll try to summarize everything as concisely as possible. (It'll be kinda all over the place sorry!)

I have 3 storage drives. One 1TB SSD Samsung Evo 860, one Seagate 1TB HDD, and one 256GB M.2 SSD. The SSD I currently have Windows installed on is:

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-MZVLW256HEHP-PM961-256GB-Internal/dp/B06VYJMLS8

This error in the subject title is what came up while trying to do a clean RE-install of Windows 10 on my current M.2 SSD which is already running Windows 10.

I have 2 USB Flash drives, one loaded with the Windows Installation files from the Microsoft website. I got all the way to the screen (shown in the video at 0:37). I do have the option to "delete" the drive that I'm currently on, but it won't let me re-install Windows on it. I'm worried that if I delete it, it won't let me re-install after deleting everything.

(fyi, everything is already backed up on google drive, so wiping everything is fine.)

Before I delve deep into my situation, if you know of a reliable, fast way to re-install a fresh copy of Windows 10 on my current M.2 SSD, I'm all ears.

After some googling, I found this video that shows the problem and how to solve via 2 methods:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agV0RbIS2bk&t=267s&ab_channel=TheTeacher

I was trying to use method 1 from the video (with Rufus)

One issue I'm running into is I'm getting an error while booting from the Windows ISO image:



Error given while trying to boot from USB with Windows ISO image loaded from Rufus. I can't seem how to figure out how to get the USB to boot.



The motherboard I have is:

http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/970A-G3.1/?cat=Specifications

I can't figure out where in BIOS to adjust this settings to make this work.



All this being said, if you know a way for me to reinstall Windows clean and fresh (without using the built-in Windows Reset function, which I heard takes forever, I'd appreciate the help.)



Thank you in advance!

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

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

 

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

This happens when the BIOS uses the legacy mode whereas the disk uses the GPT partition scheme.

 

windows cannot be installed to this disk. the selected disk is of the GPT partition style

I want to install win 10 to my ASUS Laptop but when i selected disk or partition, windows cannot be installed to this disk. the selected disk is of the GPT partition style. How to install Win 10 in my Laptop, please and thank you ?