A lot of people who use computers wonder, “Should I use MBR or GPT?” when they first set up a disk in Windows. Is your hard drive MBR or GPT? Which is better for an external hard drive: MBR or GPT?

GPT (GUID Partition Table) is a standard for the layout of partition tables of a physical computer storage device. It is part of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) standard. It has ...

The format used to define the hard disk partitions in computers with UEFI startup firmware. The GUID Partition Table (GPT) replaces the previous master boot record (MBR). GPT partitions can hold 18 ...

Windows 11/10 streamlined the process of using unused space in disk partitions. Making further partitions became easier. But the new structure hasn’t been bug-free. When you try to format raw space or ...

While installing Windows 8, Ragav RG converted his hard drive to the new GPT partitioning format. He asked about its advantages. Before it can load an operating system, your PC needs a way of know ...

Format disks / images Fix a partition table, recover a deleted partition Recover the GUID Partition Table from its backup Locate partitions which are inaccessible / ignored by the OS Verify the ...

I've neve used them personally but I know parted can create them and it looks like the kernel option is CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION which is on by default in Debian, I don't have an Ubuntu machine to check ...

Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table occurs because your computer's settings (UEFI mode) are not compatible with the disk's partition format (MBR).