Hello Windows Universe!
Michael with The Windows Club bringing
you another look under the hood of your
Windows main machine.
Now, if you have a hard drive over two
terabytes in size,
you should be using a GPT partition.
If your disc is larger than two
terabytes,
then the rest of the disk space will not
be used
unless you convert that to GPT.
In this video, we will talk about the GPT
and go over a couple ways to convert MBR
to GPT in Windows 10. We will also link
an article in the description down below
that will serve as an
excellent reference guide for your
computer tune-up.
The GUID partition table or GPT was
introduced as part of the unified
extensible interface. Now, GPT provides
more options than the traditional
MBR partitioning method that you
commonly find in Windows 7,
8 and 10 PCs. MBR
disks support only four partition
entries. If you want more, then you need
to create a secondary
structure called an extended partition.
And, as I said earlier, if you have a
large sized hard drive then you would
probably
want (no, you should) convert the MBR to
GPT.
A big challenge that you will face when
you convert
MBRTG is that you can only convert
MBR to GPT if there are no partitions or
volumes present on the disk,
making that task nearly impossible to
convert without data loss.
You'll have to ask the boys and Redmen
about the reasoning behind that one.
Really Microsoft, why did you do that!
But, we do have some workarounds and I
would advise
creating a system restore point before
going any further
and making a copy of all of your data
either on an external hard drive
or a USB. What you can do
is you can convert using this part. What
you would do is you'd open the command
prompt
in administrative access, type in
disk part
and hit enter.
Type in list
disk and make note of the disk you want
to convert to GPT.
Then, type in select
disk and the number of the disk,
and then finally type in convert.
Now, if you're worried about data loss, we
can try
GPT gen. The process is extensive and I
would recommend using the article
step-by-step instructions.
Just so you don't make a mistake and
then you can convert
MBR to GPT,
using the built in MBR
GPT tool.
You can only do this from the Windows
pre-installation environment and we have
an
excellent how-to guide
on how to do that and we'll cover it
more in depth in a future video.
Now, do you know of any other methods of
safely converting
MBR to GPT. Let us know in the comments
down below.
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