Many computer users are curious about whether they should use MBR or GPT when initializing a disk for the first time in Windows. In fact, selecting the appropriate option is essential for the ...

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 ...

Then you plug in the SSD, which becomes the first drive, but it doesn't have those files because it's an MBR disk with no EFI partition. Even though you are pointing to the 4TB disk when you select ...

I'm on Ubuntu Lucid. It looks like the partition table on my trusted backup drive has gotten damaged or corrupted (may have been improperly removed before unmounting, maybe). Because this is my backup ...

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 ...

Windows 11 prep: How to convert MBR hard drive partitions to GPT Your email has been sent Current users of Windows 10 who plan to update their operating systems to Windows 11 when it is released in ...

When a hard drive is installed in a computer, it must be partitioned before you can format and use it. Partitioning a drive is when you divide the total storage of a drive into different pieces. These ...

For some time now I have gotten a slow but steady volume of requests that I write about UEFI firmware and EFI boot relative to installing and maintaining Linux. As a result of a casual comment I made ...