Converting MBR into GPT and Vice Versa: How to Install Windows on GPT or MBR Drive 📀💻 🛠️
Channel: Hetman Software: Data Recovery for Windows
Date: 2018-05-04

👍 Watch about MBR and GPT hard disk types. How to learn which type you’re using, how to convert MBR into GPT and vice versa with Windows standard tools, why you may need it, and what are the consequences of such conversion. I’ll also show you which software to use for conversion without data loss.

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They are two methods of storing the partition table on a hard disk. GPT is a newer standard created for disks with capacity over 2 TB and required for booting Windows in UEFI mode.
On the contrary, MBR is an older type which only allows creating up to 4 partitions on disks under 2 TB. It is required to boot old versions of the operating system - older than Windows 8.

You can learn which one - BIOS or UEFI - you’re using by pressing the key sequence Win+R: in the window that opens type the command msinfo32, and you can see this information in the window that opens next, in the BIOS version/date line.

Contents: 
0:00 - Intro;
1:40 - How is the partition table used? 
2:33 - How to convert MBR into GPT. 
4:50 - Spanned volume. 
6:07 - Why we need it? 
7:47 - Converting disks without losing data.

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