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I have a mixture of W10 Pro and Home systems booting from SSD's of various sizes. Several of the newer systems I had preformed a clean install of W8 and set the SSD up as GPT. With the auto update feature for W10 I have ended up with a couple of 'old' systems running W10 on MBR formatted SSD's. I'm curious, is there any reason/advantage on why I should do a clean install of W10 on the MBR drives and convert to GPT. The systems in question have the latest and greatest MB's and BIOS's so they should be able to take advantage of what UEFI has to offer? All of the SSD's are 240GB so the number of primary partitions is not an issue.
Hi,
I just purchased a Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB (WD1002FAEX) and plugged it in. However, Windows wants me to initialize the disk and gives me two options for this:
1. MBR (Master Boot Record)
and
2. GPT (GUID Partition Table)
So my question is which one of these should I chose? And does it have any influence what my other drives are (I don't really know what they are since I haven't seen this before)? My other disks are a Vertex 2 SSD and an old Samsung F1 1TB disk. I am running Windows 7 Professional 64 bit.
I hope someone can help. Thanks
I just purchased a Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB (WD1002FAEX) and plugged it in. However, Windows wants me to initialize the disk and gives me two options for this:
1. MBR (Master Boot Record)
and
2. GPT (GUID Partition Table)
So my question is which one of these should I chose? And does it have any influence what my other drives are (I don't really know what they are since I haven't seen this before)? My other disks are a Vertex 2 SSD and an old Samsung F1 1TB disk. I am running Windows 7 Professional 64 bit.
I hope someone can help. Thanks
GPT, which one is better, and what is the difference between GPT and MBR? In this post, we will explain these 2 aspects in detail. And we will tell you how to initialize them to MBR or GPT without data loss with a piece of professional partition manager - MiniTool Partition Wizard.