Just wanna clarify something: BIOS and UEFI aren't opposites (i think you guys understand what I'm saying) Your BIOS just handles Basic Input Output (forgot what the S stands for). In the BIOS, atleast in my motherboard's BIOS, you can set it to Legacy or UEFI. So it's either Legacy with MBR or UEFI with GPT. Not BIOS or UEFI 😅. Hope this helps
Andrew I'm just a hobbiest but i been playing around for a long time. You are mistaken about partitions if you say a 4T hard drive you can't have two 2T partitions I do it all the time on my older MBR machines. I usually limit my partitions to 1.9Tb so they can work on older machines. the largest I have tried is my 5T western dig 2.5" usb Its not perfect like all hard drives you lose about 10% for magical stuff i can't exlaine I have complained about the drive manufacturers cheating but nobody gave a shit. As far as EFI I know what it is but it don't like me and I struggle navigating around from lack of pratice. thats why i'm here.
I have windows 7 with premiere pro installed, should I stick to MBR for each hard drive I connect to it or make them GPT? Want to download video to an external SSD drive and edit with that hard drive on Windows 7.
Finally someone who knows what he's talking about and answers in FIVE minutes + articulates in order to be understood by everyone on the planet !! Great job and thank yo so much !!! 🤘👏
Thanks for this video Andrew. You just taught something to an old computer geek of 75 years. Let it not be said that we can't learn from somebody a whole lot younger than ourselves. How nice to learn from such a very smart guy too. Thanks again.
I wish everyone on youTube would go back to making video and tutorials this way .. no loud annoying music in the intro, or panhandling for likes and subs, no in video ads for sponsors... ugh! this was a breath of fresh air. You told me everything I needed to know in concise, lay terms and in a coherent and straightforward manner. Thank you sir.
Aww leave him alone, he's excellent as is. Knows his stuff and wants to help others build their own stuff. I could've used him16 years ago when I built 3 of my own, and one with parts from 2000 that blows the new stuff away for speed. Not a gamer, but love the equipment needed to play the latest and best gamer stuff. Thanks Andrew, just a fluke, but had someone ask me what the difference between MBR and UEFI, rather GPT, but I knew UEFI used GPT drives but didn't know off the top what the size split max was.
@- i can't imagine staying inside playing fake games as a kid...we were out living, fighting and hooligan stuff. hot rods, guns, chicks, etc...this poor guy will never NOT have to pay for it. sad really. our country is DOOMED!
hey Andrew, I have no idea about how old you are and honestly it does not matter at all. What I'm saying here is that you are geared up for teaching (not only or particularly computer stuff). you certainly master the art of explaining things for an average joe like me to understand fairly technical stuff. Thanks bud and keep on sharing your knowledge, this world needs more guys like you! Hans J. Plourde
I've been confused about this because I have been trying to dump Windows and go to Manjaro. Everytime I try to install it from the USB drive, it crashes before I can install. I figured it out that GPT was the main problem because I was so used to using MBR. This video made it easy to understand why, how, and what reason I should just do GPT from now on. Thank you sir. You have a like and a subscribe.
You can use command prompt to convert a drive from MBR to GPT or GPT to MBR. This comes in handy with cheaply built premade 'Gamer PCs' when the first power up doesn't boot Windows and gives a configuration error. I learned this on the fly fixing a computer for a family member and had no idea what MBR and GPT was as I am a web developer. I would like to note that the PC I was working on had a 512GB M.2 drive that was configured to GBT. I couldn't use a USB stick to repair or reinstall windows, so I had to convert the drive to MBR using command prompt. After converting it to MBR, I was able to install windows, and everything went normal from there. I came here to learn the difference so thank you for the information.
The problem I faced after cloning old drive to a new is that I could not boot up with UEFI. For some reason NEW drive was in MBR. So nothing could help to boot, until a friend recommended to use Legacy BIOS. Now I am here on this channel. Thanks.
With the rise of Windows 11 requirement being UEFI and needs GPT Disk format it's nice to have people explaining this sort of terminology to educate ourselves on what we need when installing Windows 11.
yay! more vids like this please!!! I am not shocked at all that you are so knowledgeable! We have a SENIOR systems engineer at our company who is only 26 but has been in that position for 3 years! I am never shocked by a young tech guru. I am usually shocked when people who are old know things lol
I always try to explain this MBR and GPT difference to people after 8 beers in night clubs at 3 AM with the same enthusiasm, and it usually don't end well.
Well met sir. I just added a SSD for additional storage, but haven't added a drive in so long I had brain freeze when I saw the two options...thanks for clearing it up.
I'm remember a long time ago the first hard disk that I had could only hold about 160MB and today's hard drives hold well over 8TB of data. It's no wonder why we need a new partitioning scheme for hard disks.
i ran into a issue with my server installation on a 12TB RIAD and windows would petition it weirdly .. and id only end up with 2TB lol .. took me 3 weeks to figure out why .. GPT solved everything
what do you do when u have a gpt drive and windows wont let u install win 10 to a gpt partition? i change to mbr, but its forced me to not use gpt even on a brand new m2 samsung 7000 read speed disk. maybe its cuz the disk is limit to only 1 tb, so then its meant to be a mbr anyway?
I just bought an SSD and considering should I just clone windows OS on WD hard drive to my new SSD, or should I just reinstall windows 10 to my new SSD. I don't wanna lose any files on my old drive.
My problem with MBR was the hidden MBR partition. I finally figured out that I could use DISKPART to remove it so that I could clone onto the drive. Most people don't yet have drives larger than 2TB except in NAS or camera systems.
Reason your usb drive not being recognized by some consoles and bluray players is GPT. Keep everything that is external and under 2tb in MBR and FAT32. Everything internal should by on GPT.
Hey bro, I'm using windows 10. I want to reset my computer and I only want only C drive to be cleaned up and not D drive where I have my personal files. When I start the reset, I select the option remove everything and then I go to the option "only the drive where windows is installed". How does this work? If I select this option, will this delete any of my files in my D drive ? My disk partition style of both hard disks is MBR.
Please answer this question. If I have more than 26 partitions, how can Windows recognized those partitions? I am looking for a solution for this for years and years. Thanks
Awesome video! I came here looking to see if I can put GPTJ on a Raspberry Pi, but this taught me stuff I didn't know I never knew, and I needed to know this. Thank you!
Found the playlist, and added it to my playlists. I hope to build a PC this year, and will definitely check this series out first! (Unless someone else builds it for me, or if I forget)
I installed the fresh windows and my bios is uefi but still it install windows with a mbr partition in my ssd though i have a very old system i5 3570 with b75 board
Here's the gist of the answer to my question. I bought a 4tb ssd drive and the only way I can use full capacity is to plug it in as an external drive to my laptop. I can't make use of its speed at bootup which is why I got it in the first place. I only found out about the connection to uefi after I already did 2x9hour os migrations. You ask why I didn't do my research before I purchased an ssd drive? I've got like four >4tb external drives already hooked up to my laptop. Tech left me in the dust while I was doing other things.
great information. I'm having a problem booting debian, the drive not even being found as a boot option, and so I'm hoping it's an issue of MBR, vs GPT and booting from UEFI or BIOS. I installed the os on this drive, but the same computer I installed it on can't find the drive to boot from
You can convert from mbr to gpt without loosing data via the command prompt mbr2gpt tool, I've tried it a couple of times specially to clone to NVME. I bought a sata SSD, sata M.2 & NVME SSDs. Installed mbr installations on all sata drives, converted to gpt and cloned to the NVME drive and all worked without a problem. First boot is a bit slow but after it makes it's own ajustments after reboot it's all good. And cloning to a smaller drive is fine, acronis sometimes adjusts it itself to fit to a smaller drive, if not Macrium reflect allows you to do so
I got a new ssd and I want to make it GPT but my main ssd with windows is MBR if I set my new ssd to GPT will it still work even though my main drive is MBR?
bro i have laptop hp and ssd i formated windows on this drive but its mbr its ok or should i change it ?? any differnece in the speed work or its ok with mbr ? ineed some help
I'm a computer repair technician, and I get some old-ass systems sometimes. But even so, I very rarely see systems with an old-fashioned legacy BIOS. UEFI has been around forever now. Unless your computer is older than dirt, just use GPT.
Hi i choose gpt r mbr which one best?? Then im new ssd buying which select best?? Then my hdd is already mbr , hdd to ssd clone possible or not?? Then newly os not booting why reason ?? Im choosing gpt ?? Any pbm please rpy me
There is no hardware change. Only data is partitioned in a different way. Then why do you need to buy a new drive? Just backup all the data and convert it to GPT after removing the existing partitions.
I was lazy and cloned my SSD to a new M.2 gen 3 nvme drive and the cloning software I used formatted it to GPT, which was not ideal. So did a searched and found that third party software can reformat it without loosing the files. I used Partition Assistant and worked, though it was not free.
my local drive which where my o.s is installed is MBR, i want to convert it to GPT, I tried it on windows installation by holding SHIFT+f10 then go cmd then disk, clean, convert GPT then it says that it was successful, but after re-installing windows 10, BUT WHEN I try to check it on my diskmanagement my local disc is mbr again,,
That's very similar to what happened to me. It worked for me when I started with a new drive, but a cleared drive should act the same. Maybe it installed the MBR version of Windows when it was reinstalling? Hope you can get it working!
@@AndrewStormer Maybe it installed the MBR version of Windows when it was reinstalling? is there any way that i can prevent that from happening? and I was shocked when I noticed that my BIOS in sysinfo info was legacy, instead of UEFI, well btw i tried a different approach, I typed "mbr2gpt.exe convert /allowfullos" to cmd and boot it on bios, but I noticed that I have a new 50mb partition named "system reserved" in my local C now,, well it's not what i expected but I think i can with that
@@maynardsamson5220 You need Windows bootable flashed at UEFI or GPT Or you can change your BIOS fron UEFI into Legacy Mode (make sure disable secure boot to enable it) Would better to owned 2 flashdrive with different partition version. 1. Windows Bootable as UEFI~GPT 2. Windows Bootable as MBR
MBR to GPT without data loss works with EaseUs Partition Master Prof Edition. Some time ago this was free, but now you need a license for about $40....
i was forced to replace my original windows10 OS on a non repairable drive that had been cloned using, unknowingly, MBR in a brand new build that runs the modern EUFI. Contrary, to what I understand from you statement about "automatically installs GPT", when rebooting I was not able to eufi option in the bios, but had to choose CMS as i assume that relates to "legacy" device. It would seem one would have to format the windows install disk as GPT ... then possibly the new drive would "mirror" that... care to clarify?
Just wanna clarify something:
BIOS and UEFI aren't opposites (i think you guys understand what I'm saying)
Your BIOS just handles Basic Input Output (forgot what the S stands for).
In the BIOS, atleast in my motherboard's BIOS, you can set it to Legacy or UEFI.
So it's either Legacy with MBR or UEFI with GPT.
Not BIOS or UEFI 😅. Hope this helps
Basic Input Output System
very helpful
Andrew I'm just a hobbiest but i been playing around for a long time. You are mistaken about partitions if you say a 4T hard drive you can't have two 2T partitions I do it all the time on my older MBR machines. I usually limit my partitions to 1.9Tb so they can work on older machines. the largest I have tried is my 5T western dig 2.5" usb Its not perfect like all hard drives you lose about 10% for magical stuff i can't exlaine I have complained about the drive manufacturers cheating but nobody gave a shit. As far as EFI I know what it is but it don't like me and I struggle navigating around from lack of pratice. thats why i'm here.
I have windows 7 with premiere pro installed, should I stick to MBR for each hard drive I connect to it or make them GPT? Want to download video to an external SSD drive and edit with that hard drive on Windows 7.
@@amitmadan496 this should not be an issue either way. I suggest moving to gpt when you upgrade from windows 7, but for now it's probably fine
No special intro, no bullshit, no ads, just info. Thx kid. You saved me a lot of time.
Finally someone who knows what he's talking about and answers in FIVE minutes + articulates in order to be understood by everyone on the planet !! Great job and thank yo so much !!! 🤘👏
Me before this video : what knowledge this kid can give?!?
Me after video : I have learnt much for today.
AWW you leave him alone, too. He's pretty good.
@@nash984954 bro that’s what he’s saying
@@nash984954 r/WOOSH
Best video on TH-cam about this topic. Thank you and best greetings from Germany
Thanks for this video Andrew. You just taught something to an old computer geek of 75 years. Let it not be said that we can't learn from somebody a whole lot younger than ourselves. How nice to learn from such a very smart guy too. Thanks again.
I wish everyone on youTube would go back to making video and tutorials this way .. no loud annoying music in the intro, or panhandling for likes and subs, no in video ads for sponsors... ugh! this was a breath of fresh air. You told me everything I needed to know in concise, lay terms and in a coherent and straightforward manner. Thank you sir.
thanks for the vids bro, the IT community always needs more IT youtubers. It should be a movement, we need as much It youtubers as possible ASAP
No games from a gamer! Only straight, factual and helpful talk! Thanks!!!
Bought a new hdd today and was confused af, thanks for this video my dude haha
Happy to help!
FOUND YOU!!!!
You were quick to the point and told me what I needed to know. Thanks dude!
Thank you but how do I covert GPT back to MBR?
It is really nice to convert my mbr disk to gpt with aomei, worked like a charm.
this guys brain is slightly big
Guys with ext frontal cortex have ,good critical thinking
So we need him ....lol
Aww leave him alone, he's excellent as is. Knows his stuff and wants to help others build their own stuff. I could've used him16 years ago when I built 3 of my own, and one with parts from 2000 that blows the new stuff away for speed. Not a gamer, but love the equipment needed to play the latest and best gamer stuff.
Thanks Andrew, just a fluke, but had someone ask me what the difference between MBR and UEFI, rather GPT, but I knew UEFI used GPT drives but didn't know off the top what the size split max was.
@- i can't imagine staying inside playing fake games as a kid...we were out living, fighting and hooligan stuff. hot rods, guns, chicks, etc...this poor guy will never NOT have to pay for it. sad really. our country is DOOMED!
@@nash984954 r/WHOOSH
hey Andrew,
I have no idea about how old you are and honestly it does not matter at all.
What I'm saying here is that you are geared up for teaching (not only or particularly computer stuff).
you certainly master the art of explaining things for an average joe like me to understand fairly technical stuff.
Thanks bud and keep on sharing your knowledge, this world needs more guys like you!
Hans J. Plourde
Thank you for the wonderful comment!
nice work, selected GPT for my 4TB drive after the first few mins, big time saver.
Thanks kid. Your explanation was straightforward. Hope your channel grows.
For anyone stuck in w11 installation gpt problems. Shift f10 and disk part to convert it to gpt. Takes a few seconds.
I've been confused about this because I have been trying to dump Windows and go to Manjaro. Everytime I try to install it from the USB drive, it crashes before I can install. I figured it out that GPT was the main problem because I was so used to using MBR.
This video made it easy to understand why, how, and what reason I should just do GPT from now on.
Thank you sir. You have a like and a subscribe.
You can use command prompt to convert a drive from MBR to GPT or GPT to MBR. This comes in handy with cheaply built premade 'Gamer PCs' when the first power up doesn't boot Windows and gives a configuration error. I learned this on the fly fixing a computer for a family member and had no idea what MBR and GPT was as I am a web developer. I would like to note that the PC I was working on had a 512GB M.2 drive that was configured to GBT. I couldn't use a USB stick to repair or reinstall windows, so I had to convert the drive to MBR using command prompt. After converting it to MBR, I was able to install windows, and everything went normal from there. I came here to learn the difference so thank you for the information.
I converted with aomei partition assistant, it worked well for me.
Everything a tutorial/troubleshoot video is supposed to be. I was back to doing what i was doing by 1:35 in, with all the info i needed. Good vid.
The problem I faced after cloning old drive to a new is that I could not boot up with UEFI. For some reason NEW drive was in MBR. So nothing could help to boot, until a friend recommended to use Legacy BIOS. Now I am here on this channel. Thanks.
With the rise of Windows 11 requirement being UEFI and needs GPT Disk format it's nice to have people explaining this sort of terminology to educate ourselves on what we need when installing Windows 11.
Thanks! Was exactly what I needed.
Dude... You're AWESOME.!!!
Thanks for the video and keep it up... 👍👍😎
I've been in the tech field for years but didn't even know this lol. Appreciate the advice
good video with clear guidance, well done Andrew!
dope video bro. showing us old heads how to level up. keep posting
you my dude have got a new sub. i just built my own pc and this has helped me a lot. keep up the great content.
That's awesome! Thanks
Thank you! Your video saved me from making a big mistake
Can i access files if i boot from OS in Gpt Ssd and files stored in Mbr HDD?-
Thanks for your answer at *3:11*
I have booted successfully with GPT ssd (windows 10 pro) + MBR HDD (personal files) , no issues.
Boot time on my pc : 9seconds.
yay! more vids like this please!!! I am not shocked at all that you are so knowledgeable! We have a SENIOR systems engineer at our company who is only 26 but has been in that position for 3 years! I am never shocked by a young tech guru. I am usually shocked when people who are old know things lol
Mini tools partition .. is converting from mbr to gpt without losing data
I always try to explain this MBR and GPT difference to people after 8 beers in night clubs at 3 AM with the same enthusiasm, and it usually don't end well.
I have a question, I have bought an SSD, but it outputs at half the speed....bit says 550mbs max but it is 285mbs...do you know what the problem is?
Super comprehensive explanation that answers the question - Why do I need to switch to GPT other than windows 11. good job sir.
Well met sir. I just added a SSD for additional storage, but haven't added a drive in so long I had brain freeze when I saw the two options...thanks for clearing it up.
I'm remember a long time ago the first hard disk that I had could only hold about 160MB and today's hard drives hold well over 8TB of data. It's no wonder why we need a new partitioning scheme for hard disks.
I learned something new today. Thank you so Andrew.
Thanks for the informative video, dude bro'. Straight to the point, only the essential info. Keep the good work (y)
i ran into a issue with my server installation on a 12TB RIAD and windows would petition it weirdly .. and id only end up with 2TB lol .. took me 3 weeks to figure out why .. GPT solved everything
what do you do when u have a gpt drive and windows wont let u install win 10 to a gpt partition? i change to mbr, but its forced me to not use gpt even on a brand new m2 samsung 7000 read speed disk. maybe its cuz the disk is limit to only 1 tb, so then its meant to be a mbr anyway?
My old Samsung SSD 850 EVO does now show up in bios on my new motherboard and does not boot (it has win10). Could the problem be that it's MBR?
I just bought an SSD and considering should I just clone windows OS on WD hard drive to my new SSD, or should I just reinstall windows 10 to my new SSD. I don't wanna lose any files on my old drive.
I would recommend installing windows on the ssd and using the other as a secondary
This was the best explanation I've heard. I learned a lot!
My problem with MBR was the hidden MBR partition. I finally figured out that I could use DISKPART to remove it so that I could clone onto the drive. Most people don't yet have drives larger than 2TB except in NAS or camera systems.
I accident made my new internal drive a MBR. How do I change it to a GUID partition?
This is exactly the Big Nerd Energy I was hoping for :D
Reason your usb drive not being recognized by some consoles and bluray players is GPT. Keep everything that is external and under 2tb in MBR and FAT32. Everything internal should by on GPT.
Cool , . . appreciate the info. Many thanks.
This is a really good explanation, this helped me install a 2tb in my new pc build!
Does anyone know how to make a gpt drive bootable i restored my partition and cant make it boot?
Fantastic job explaining. Thank you very much, George.
MiniTool Partition Wizard Pro is the answer to easy conversion between the two types.
Hey bro, I'm using windows 10. I want to reset my computer and I only want only C drive to be cleaned up and not D drive where I have my personal files. When I start the reset, I select the option remove everything and then I go to the option "only the drive where windows is installed". How does this work? If I select this option, will this delete any of my files in my D drive ? My disk partition style of both hard disks is MBR.
C should be the one where windows is installed, but I can't guarantee it won't delete other files. I would unplug the D drive and then reset.
Please answer this question. If I have more than 26 partitions, how can Windows recognized those partitions? I am looking for a solution for this for years and years. Thanks
Awesome video!
I came here looking to see if I can put GPTJ on a Raspberry Pi, but this taught me stuff I didn't know I never knew, and I needed to know this.
Thank you!
Found the playlist, and added it to my playlists.
I hope to build a PC this year, and will definitely check this series out first! (Unless someone else builds it for me, or if I forget)
Excellent video. Thank you.
I installed the fresh windows and my bios is uefi but still it install windows with a mbr partition in my ssd
though i have a very old system i5 3570 with b75 board
Here's the gist of the answer to my question. I bought a 4tb ssd drive and the only way I can use full capacity is to plug it in as an external drive to my laptop. I can't make use of its speed at bootup which is why I got it in the first place. I only found out about the connection to uefi after I already did 2x9hour os migrations. You ask why I didn't do my research before I purchased an ssd drive? I've got like four >4tb external drives already hooked up to my laptop. Tech left me in the dust while I was doing other things.
great information. I'm having a problem booting debian, the drive not even being found as a boot option, and so I'm hoping it's an issue of MBR, vs GPT and booting from UEFI or BIOS. I installed the os on this drive, but the same computer I installed it on can't find the drive to boot from
Thanks for your honesty!
MBR is an old partition type that can take max 4 partitions and only 2 TB size .
GPT can take max 128 partitions an unlimited size .
Also resizable bar and SAM not available on mbr.
Thank you man! I hope to see more videos from you :)
You can convert from mbr to gpt without loosing data via the command prompt mbr2gpt tool, I've tried it a couple of times specially to clone to NVME. I bought a sata SSD, sata M.2 & NVME SSDs. Installed mbr installations on all sata drives, converted to gpt and cloned to the NVME drive and all worked without a problem. First boot is a bit slow but after it makes it's own ajustments after reboot it's all good.
And cloning to a smaller drive is fine, acronis sometimes adjusts it itself to fit to a smaller drive, if not Macrium reflect allows you to do so
You gained a new subscriber. Thanks for explain everything
I got a new ssd and I want to make it GPT but my main ssd with windows is MBR if I set my new ssd to GPT will it still work even though my main drive is MBR?
Awesome. Thanks for clearing my doubts
Straight to the facts! Thanks :D GPT is the way, this video explains it all.
Omg bro, what a great answer to my questions... subscribed
So, today my lecturer was a young kid, LOL... Thanks Mr Lecturer, you saved me quite from a lot of anxiety as to what to choose...
bro i have laptop hp and ssd i formated windows on this drive but its mbr its ok or should i change it ?? any differnece in the speed work or its ok with mbr ? ineed some help
If it's not 3tb+ then leave it. There's not really a performance gain and no reason to set everything up again
Software for cloning MBR type of disks is mostly free but the same software will require you to buy a license to clone GPT disk
Amazing video dude!!
It is highly informative
I'm a computer repair technician, and I get some old-ass systems sometimes. But even so, I very rarely see systems with an old-fashioned legacy BIOS. UEFI has been around forever now. Unless your computer is older than dirt, just use GPT.
Nice video, thanks!
Thanks bro u made it super clear for me👍
Hi i choose gpt r mbr which one best?? Then im new ssd buying which select best?? Then my hdd is already mbr , hdd to ssd clone possible or not?? Then newly os not booting why reason ?? Im choosing gpt ?? Any pbm please rpy me
There is no hardware change. Only data is partitioned in a different way. Then why do you need to buy a new drive? Just backup all the data and convert it to GPT after removing the existing partitions.
I was lazy and cloned my SSD to a new M.2 gen 3 nvme drive and the cloning software I used formatted it to GPT, which was not ideal. So did a searched and found that third party software can reformat it without loosing the files. I used Partition Assistant and worked, though it was not free.
Well software for cloning MBR type of disks is mostly free but the same software will require you to buy a license to clone GPT disk.
Wow dude you’re blowing up!
Thank you, was very short and informative video and helped me to make a quick decision which partition table to use.
I just converted my existing windows 10 drive to gpt and I did not lose any data
You just helped me a bunch, thank you!
Good stuff dude!
This video is incredible, subscribed
Hi Andrew! Thanks for the info!
loved the thumbnail!
my local drive which where my o.s is installed is MBR, i want to convert it to GPT,
I tried it on windows installation by holding SHIFT+f10 then go cmd then disk, clean, convert GPT then it says that it was successful, but after re-installing windows 10, BUT WHEN I try to check it on my diskmanagement my local disc is mbr again,,
That's very similar to what happened to me. It worked for me when I started with a new drive, but a cleared drive should act the same. Maybe it installed the MBR version of Windows when it was reinstalling? Hope you can get it working!
@@AndrewStormer Maybe it installed the MBR version of Windows when it was reinstalling? is there any way that i can prevent that from happening? and I was shocked when I noticed that my BIOS in sysinfo info was legacy, instead of UEFI,
well btw i tried a different approach, I typed "mbr2gpt.exe convert /allowfullos" to cmd and boot it on bios, but I noticed that I have a new 50mb partition named "system reserved" in my local C now,, well it's not what i expected but I think i can with that
@@maynardsamson5220
You need Windows bootable flashed at UEFI or GPT
Or you can change your BIOS fron UEFI into Legacy Mode (make sure disable secure boot to enable it)
Would better to owned 2 flashdrive with different partition version.
1. Windows Bootable as UEFI~GPT
2. Windows Bootable as MBR
bro some time windows going to crash that time how to install windows in gpt volume
MBR to GPT without data loss works with EaseUs Partition Master Prof Edition. Some time ago this was free, but now you need a license for about $40....
You are good in explaniontin and make things easy :).
Thank you Mr.Andrew>
Good Explanation - Thanks
I recently got a nvme ssd and I want to move windows onto it. Which one should I do then? MBR or GPT. Windows is botting off of a 128gb data ssd.
I recommend GPT, but it doesn't really matter in that case
Bruh, you`re the new Jesus, I swear. You just gained a new subscriber ❤❤
I seriously don't know if my motherboard has a bios or uefi
using diskpart you can easyly convert mbr drives to gpt.
i was forced to replace my original windows10 OS on a non repairable drive that had been cloned using, unknowingly, MBR in a brand new build that runs the modern EUFI. Contrary, to what I understand from you statement about "automatically installs GPT", when rebooting I was not able to eufi option in the bios, but had to choose CMS as i assume that relates to "legacy" device.
It would seem one would have to format the windows install disk as GPT ... then possibly the new drive would "mirror" that... care to clarify?