Specs; Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P Rev 2 older MB (2016) AMD based system. Main drive; 250GB SSD W7 Pro x64 MBR no hidden partitions Backup; brand new 4TB same O/S GPT one created System partition using ...

I've just spent 2 hours trying to convert my new Samsung SSD (as a boot drive) from MBR to GPT. First time I upgraded from Win 7 64-bit to Win 8.1 64-bit (booting from the Windows DVD), disk ...

Many high-end games, professional software, and cloud security applications now require Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 features, which are only supported when the system disk uses the GPT partition ...

This post explains what is MBR (Master Boot Record), GPT (GUID Partition Table) and which technology is better for your SSD.

The newer (GPT) standard solves some limitations of the older (MBR) standard. Here's how to tell which standard your drive uses.