What is a GUID Partition Table, or GPT? In this post, we will see what a GPT partition is and how it compares to MBR disks. We will also learn how to format, remove, or delete a GPT disk or convert it ...

OK, so you’ve managed to acquire a shiny new Solid-State Drive (SSD) after months of saving. You’ll be glad to know that SSDs are much faster than traditional Hard Disk Drives (HDD), and that’s a good ...

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 ...

Definition of MBR & how to fix missing or corrupt MBRs A master boot record (often shortened as MBR) is a kind of boot sector stored on a hard disk drive or other storage device that contains the ...

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 format.

What is the GPT protective partition? Why is my disk showing as GPT protective partition in Disk Management? How to fix a GPT protective partition without losing data and regain access to it? In this ...

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 ...

I have a 2TB MBR drive w/ W7 in the 1st partition. Partitions 2 & 3 are used as separate storage. I want to xfer all of that to a 4TB GPT drive including resizing the 2nd & 3rd partitions. Most of ...

Though super lightweight, simple, and appealingly retro, DriveImageXML doesn’t support the newer GPT partitioning scheme for cloning and image restore. Backup and file restore still function fine with ...