Is there any reason to use an MBR versus GUID partition on a WD20EARS 2 TB advanced format drive? The drive will most likely be connected to a Windows 7 x64 machine and a Windows Home Server v1 box ...

Disk management is a Windows program allowing users to manage drives and different PC partitions. It can create, delete, format, convert MBR to GPT, and perform other operations. Due to its graphical ...

A GPT disk necessarily has an MBR as well, and while the GPT spec says that the MBR should indicate that the disk has one big partition of a type that a non-GPT-aware OS won't recognize ("nothing to ...