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Full of relevant knowledge, drama free and to the point. Microsoft can learn a lot from this partition. Microsoft Virtual Academy presenters waste time joking with each other, talking about personal lives (pictures with loving dogs) and distract massively from the subject. This video and more by author keep you glued.
You just saved me from a lot of headache. I was about to convert the disk to GPT but had no idea it would erase the partitions. Thank you very very much!
My understanding of topics has been levelled up after following this channels . This one is the nice work done by the Author of this channel . I would like to know the spokesperson of these videos and would like to follow him up.
Nice video! Let me confirm...an MBR can address a maximum of a 2 TB capacity HDD or a maximum of a 2 TB partition? For example, can I have a 4TB HDD partitioned into two 2TB partitions?
I love your to the point and very well explained quality videos very much.A lot of respect to You and your videos.I will be very happy to refer these videos to anyone who is interested in this field...:)
Dear and respected itfreetraining please be kind to provide some guidance on situation i am in , i did a clean install of Windows 8.1 Pro version and my disk has been converted to GPT by installation ( i performed all steps needed for clean install such as deleting all partitions then clicked new then format and finally next ) and now my OS is booting from Windows Boot Manger ( only 1 OS is being present no dual boot ) and if i try to boot from my Hard disk drive all i get is black screen ? What should i do since as i know GPT doesn't allow setting C drive as Primary and Active as MBR does? I do not know why Windows installed GPT cause i did not perform any conversion steps and my HDD is 500 GB in size ? Thank you very much for your kind help
Advantages of using a GUID partition table over a master boot record: - Can add up to 128 primary partitions, no need for extended partitions. - Supports maximum partition size up to 8 zettabytes. - Capable of protecting against data corruption. The only downside is that the GUID partition table only works well if your computer supports UEFI firmware and the operating system is 64-bit Windows 8 or higher.
This! Protection against data corruption is huge - in 2024 it's a no-brainer to go with GPT. Even my 10-year-old PC has UEFI. Since it was built with Windows 7, I'm converting all my old drives while typing my comments.
Excellent lesson, thank you, made me subscribe to your channel. I am preparing for the CompTIA 902 exam which is scheduled for next week, I have already passed the 901. Thanks again.
If you are trying to set up a PC or laptop with win 7, using a 500GB HDD, to see if the machine works, and, you find out it does work fine with Win 7, but later you want to upgrade to win 10 (same HDD) if you set the HDD to MBR will Win 10 install properly?🤔 Is it best to set up a HDD with GPT at the start? Thanks
Had so convert my SSD from GPT to MBR to install, even though OS and hardware are 64 Bit and the PC supports UEFI. Was interested to know the difference. Thanks for the nice and well explained video. Much appreciated.
Master Boot Record (MBR) disks use the standard BIOS partition table. GUID Partition Table (GPT) disks use Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). Drives can be much, much larger and size limits will depend on the operating system and its file systems. GPT allows for a nearly unlimited amount of partitions, and the limit here will be your operating system.
What if I have an SSD that's only 1TB in size. Can I use MBR Partition style to clone my C Drive(GPT) which has the OS installed on it, to the SSD(MBR) & use that SSD to boot up Windows?
Great video, really helped me. Can someone clue me in regards the four primary partitions? Can only one be extended? What was the reasoning for only having four primary? Thanks.
Four was originally used with the first PC's. As time when on they decided they needed more. To keep it compatible with the old PC's they could not change the number of primary partitions so they added the option to change one of the primary partitions to an extended partition. The extended partitions allows additional partitions to be created to increase the total number from four and keep compatibility with older systems. So only one can be extended. The OS now days handles all this stuff for you, so you generally don't need to worry about it.
I used mbr for my 120gb ssd , can I also use mbr for my 1tb hdd at the same time? Or can I only use mbr for one of them. I have compatible hardware for both mbr and gpt [first time pc builder]
Why 2 TiB limit in MBR ? Logical Block Address (LBA) is 32 bit and disk sector size is 512 bytes. 2^32 x 2^9 = 2^41 = 2 TiB. Hence the limit. More disk spaces is not usable.
@@memd777 i'm confused, i want to add one more OS (win 7) to my win10, it says "the disk is GPT" so im thinking to convert maybe just the one partition (have no idee are that posible), but i'm scary to do that (maybe i will lost all data from other partition). So i'm thinking right know, IS THERE A WINDOWS 7 THAT SUPPORT GPT???
@@xxxARBiHxxx the question is, why do you want to install windows 7 with windows 10 ? Thats the question. Windows 10 is better than windows 7 in every way possible. Its backward compatible so all apps of windows 7 can run on 10 easily. There is no reason to install windows 7 again. If it was one of unix based OS I could have understood but having 7 when you can have 10 I don't get it. And to answer your question, NO , WINDOWS 7 DOES NOT SUPPORT GPT. Don't go back in time.
@@memd777 very easy to answer my brother. i have AMD switchable graphic card, i really tried all possible ways from internet (like power options, trying XY different drivers and other things) to make my AMD available for apps and games, but it just starts on the basic Intel graphic card. have no idee why, on win7 it works perfectly, it recognizes automatically, but on win10 even when i set manualy to start on AMD it will not. it bothers me. so i wanted win 10 for working and learning and win7 for playing
@@xxxARBiHxxx makes sense. But i am pretty sure your graphic card should work with win10, i am sure there must be a way out. I would recommend you to find that way, because thats the right way, if you give up then yeah you go for win 7, but dont give up.
Thanks sir. I appreciate your time. its very helpful. In fact I was installing Manjaro where I came access this thing. Your explanation is great. Thanks again
Thanks a lot brother I was searching for the difference of these two and your video helped me a lot to understand... Keep up the good work I'll be checking your channel... Once again thanks you very much...
Hey I was trying to install a 64bit Arch in Vbox... Reformatted the entire drive to MBR tables then did the partitions for installation and all the other procedures.. Was following a slightly modified guide... For installing the bootloader it told be to skip uefi/gpt and use bios/mbr... Issue is i enabled EFI boot and when i checked if efivars is populated it was... SO ill have to try again deciding whether i want GPT or MBR and follow the process for one. I guess if i decide on GPT/UEFI then i shouldnt reformat entire drive to mbr before i partition for installation of arch? Another thing is can a 64 bit OS installation take place with MBR tables?I read it supports a 32 bit installation.. Am understanding this? As is usual with an Arch installation.. Im forced to learn a crapton of shit very fast.. :)
hi. i bought new laptop with new m.2 ssd 512 gb. after fomatting gpu not worked. i asked to support they told me laptop missing some drivers. i updated all driver and nothing changed. the i installed linux but it didn't installed normally, was not working good. i think it's ssd has problem. it's gpt. do you prefer me to change it mbr? do you think it will work?
Since the drive is small, you can use MBR. MBR is better supported so if you are having problem it is worth trying. Since you are using a laptop and only a small drive you are not missing out on anything using MBR.
good stuff here, thank you. Im using mbr and legacy boot. will these affect if im booting with my 1tb internal as the OS, with my 2tb external HD plugged in? Im experiencing quite a lot of blue screen after 30min of use from booting.
It shouldn't really. Go to the System Properties, and go to the Advanced tab. From here, select Startup and Recovery. Under the System Failure section, uncheck Automatically restart. This will allow you to see the bluescreen stop code. Get that and reply to our comment with the error code and we'll attempt to help you. Best of luck!
I am curious if you do know, when all 4 partition entries of MBR are taken up what would you do if you wanted to create another one. This would be the case if you was installing another operating system for example. I don't really know the answer
One of the partitions can be what is referred to as an extended partition. This partition can contain a number of partitions. In the older operation system only 26 partitions were supported as this was how many drive letters there were. So you would have 3 primary partitions and one extended partition. The extended partition could contain another 23 partitions. Newer operating system can have more than 26. Windows disk manager will automatically change a partition to extended as required.
I have a question, may it not be about this specific video... Why Hyper-V server 2012 is launched separately? bit confused about it, anyone welcome to answer.
Hi. I am facing a very complicated situation here. Ok it goes like this, I have a 500G hard drive and it was no longer declared as an NTFS but a RAW, so I tried fixing the problem with "Parted Magic" and I couldn't fix it until I deleted the data partition table from that disk and now it doesn't want to write a new one it keeps displaying an error message. So I thought maybe if I used/coppied my other hard drives MBR and restored them to my corrupted drive maybe the problem could be solved. So can you please help me out? Can disk cloning do that job for me? Thanks.
It sounds like there is something wrong with the hard disk. I would suggest download a checking tool from the manufacture of the drive. Also if you have it plugged into the computer using USB this can cause problems so I would try connecting it directly to the computer if you have not already.
***** The issue is not with the sector sizes. The issue is the 32bit address they use to mark the end of the partition. They went for a value that indicates where the partition ends rather than a size value. The sector size chosen does not effect this value.
4k sector sizes of MBR is something we need to add to this video. The problem with them is the operating system may have problems with them. But if it works it does allows up to 16TB drives.
A question if you can answer. My system is old by today's standard and it doesn't have UEFI so no GPT (at least from what I understood you need UEFI to support GPT), if I plug in a drive larger than 2TB in my system can I use the it as a storage drive and not a bootable one? I do have Windows 7 64bit. Also if I plug in a 2TB drive will it work?
Hello Sir, Could you please tell me how do i create more than 4 partition on MBR hard disk not to lost any data in the futures even when reinstalling windows.
+Jacob Kim Naulak If you use disk manager, Windows will automatically change one of the primary partitions to an extended partition. You will be able to create more than 4 partitions then. When reinstalling Windows, the install will use the existing partitions.
+Shawgydog Hello, you could technically use either in this instance. However, because you are not booting to it it would be suggested to use GPT as it has more advantages over MBR, especially since you aren't using it to boot.
Hi, you mention that for a UEFI system to be bootable the HDD has to support UEFI. Is that true also for CD/DVD players? I ask because I'm having problems using such a device to boot a Windows 10 installation disk. It gives an error 'crypto library internal error'. But when I use the same player in my mbr/bios based system I have no problems using the installation DVD. Why?
+Imran Hameed UEFI is a new system then BIOS and has a number of working parts in order to get it to work. For this reason, older software and hardware may have problems with it. If you are getting an error, you may need to update the software or hardware.
+itfreetraining Hi, do you know what the particular error I am getting, i.e. crypto library internal error means? The cd/dvd drive I am using is brand new Samsung unit (its a burner actually) and therefore should be uefi ready. The motherboard is a new Asus Z97-A/USB 3.1 and the cpu is an intel I5 - 4690K. So all hardware is new!
That was my mistake i just installed my new windows on a 4 tb hdd with NBR partition Now i have to format everything and install it again THANKS FOR THE VIDEO :)
That is a very interesting and helpful tutorial, thanks. I recently replaced Windows XP on a 40g IDE HD with Lubuntu, XP was deleted and Lubuntu installed and booted successfully. I then decided to buy an SSD with an IDE connection ( M Sata conversion ) I fitted it into the notebook and installed Lubuntu, but it won't boot, I tried with PloP and I recieved a message saying: MBR; is valid. "No valid bootsector signature" ....I just don't get it. Doh!
@@itfreetraining Thanks for your reply, unfortunately I don't have a secure boot option anywhere in this ancient bios, no UEFI just legacy emulation options.
MBR does not support more than 2 terrabyte on a drive where windows is booting from right ? Drive /D or a external can be larger than 2 terra with a MBR boot drive (C). Must be because my external drives are just MBR style and larger than 2 terrabyte.
hey,please can you help me. My friend has been trying to install windows 7 and he gets he can't select his 1TB drive and click next because it says "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has a MBR partition table. On EFI systems, windows can only be installed to GPT disks" can you help us make it work? Thanks :)
Is the drive a solid state drive? It may be that version of Windows has problems detecting the drive. Possibly the firmware on the solid state needs to be updated. I would test the drive and make sure that it works. For 1 TB drive it should not matter if you use MBR or GPT. Also EFI does not matter if you use MBR or GPT. Only becomes a problem with the drive is larger than 2 TB.
if you already installed window 7 and have all data in your 3tb or 4tb mbr...you can use AEOMEI Partition Assistant Pro Edition To Convert Mbr To GPT Without Losing All Your Data And your motherboard must support UEFI And In disk 0 make sure to change From Your Hardisk Name To Uefi Window Boot Manager and you must have window 7 ultimate or other window 7 that support 64bit operating system in order to use Fully 3TB,4TB or larger that that On Your System.
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i havent trouble wit a portable drive is a 4 tb when i first bought it i plug in to my windows 7 pro pc n it read it n it was normal even had move about 500g worth of pics ,movies than i decide to use it for an xbox one drive so i reformat it after i sold my xbox i wanted to use back to windows but it didnt read at all so i cudnt reformat it i plug it in my windows 10pc same problem so i dowloaded a program that was able to read xbox one drive n change it from xbox mode to pc after that i was able to format it bak to my pc but when i plugged it back on my windows 7 pro pc it wud shut off my computer made my computer all weird that that i try to fix everything that i ended up reinstalling windows7 on that after install i still have the same problem on that pc but not on my windows 10 that actually reads it n im able to put stuff on it what wud be the problem?
I was able to partition by 3Tb GPT hard disk into 2 x 1.5TB MBR hard disk using Free MiniTool partition software. After doing that my Samsung TV is detecting and playing it.
You can certainly try, there are also some Linux Live CDs that provide HDD recovery capabilities. With a bad sector, it might make it difficult but it's possible to try and make the bit level copy of the drive to a good drive to access from there.
+Carlitox b Not to familiar with Yosemite. Found this link which may help. apple.stackexchange.com/questions/198830/upgrade-to-yosemite-failed-mbr-and-gpt-dont-match
Well, if you're talking about why you would partition a drive the answer lies in segregating data, really. If you want the OS and Data areas separate you can do that partitions.
Windows 11 operating system is only bootable for UEFI-based systems, so please convert from MBR to GPT and enable UEFI boot mode to continue installing and using Windows 11 operating system.
About 6 years ago I used to study with your videos quite a bit. Now i teach A+ and others, I am most Happy that your channel is still up and running!
I for one would be more than happy to see some new Videos!!
Thanks again for all your dedication, and great material...
Regards,
Bhima S.
Full of relevant knowledge, drama free and to the point. Microsoft can learn a lot from this partition. Microsoft Virtual Academy presenters waste time joking with each other, talking about personal lives (pictures with loving dogs) and distract massively from the subject. This video and more by author keep you glued.
This old video helped me to understand concepts clearly with real examples. thanks a lot👍
Thank you for this refreshment course.
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Almost shrunk my new 3Tb HDD to a MBR 2Tb. Thanks for the info!
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You just saved me from a lot of headache. I was about to convert the disk to GPT but had no idea it would erase the partitions. Thank you very very much!
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you can convert it without losing any data, I converted my MBR drive to GPT as well just to use some UEFI bios features
My understanding of topics has been levelled up after following this channels . This one is the nice work done by the Author of this channel . I would like to know the spokesperson of these videos and would like to follow him up.
+Anand Rajput We're happy our videos helped you. Thanks for the comment!
Nice video! Let me confirm...an MBR can address a maximum of a 2 TB capacity HDD or a maximum of a 2 TB partition? For example, can I have a 4TB HDD partitioned into two 2TB partitions?
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Dear and respected itfreetraining please be kind to provide some guidance on situation i am in , i did a clean install of Windows 8.1 Pro version and my disk has been converted to GPT by installation ( i performed all steps needed for clean install such as deleting all partitions then clicked new then format and finally next ) and now my OS is booting from Windows Boot Manger ( only 1 OS is being present no dual boot ) and if i try to boot from my Hard disk drive all i get is black screen ? What should i do since as i know GPT doesn't allow setting C drive as Primary and Active as MBR does? I do not know why Windows installed GPT cause i did not perform any conversion steps and my HDD is 500 GB in size ? Thank you very much for your kind help
Advantages of using a GUID partition table over a master boot record:
- Can add up to 128 primary partitions, no need for extended partitions.
- Supports maximum partition size up to 8 zettabytes.
- Capable of protecting against data corruption.
The only downside is that the GUID partition table only works well if your computer supports UEFI firmware and the operating system is 64-bit Windows 8 or higher.
That is all correct. Thanks for the summary.
This! Protection against data corruption is huge - in 2024 it's a no-brainer to go with GPT. Even my 10-year-old PC has UEFI. Since it was built with Windows 7, I'm converting all my old drives while typing my comments.
Excellent lesson, thank you, made me subscribe to your channel. I am preparing for the CompTIA 902 exam which is scheduled for next week, I have already passed the 901. Thanks again.
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Here in Windows 10, you can convert MBR to GPT *without losing data*
Excellent point! Thanks for commenting.
@@itfreetraining Most HDD partitioning tools allow converting GPT-MBR and vice versa without losing data as well
i watch this after formating the disk.
@@mrgreen7754 Formatting doesn't destroy information ;) It only checks disk and clears list of files. All files remain intact.
how?
Great and simple explanation. Thanks a lot!
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If you are trying to set up a PC or laptop with win 7, using a 500GB HDD, to see if the machine works, and, you find out it does work fine with Win 7, but later you want to upgrade to win 10 (same HDD) if you set the HDD to MBR will Win 10 install properly?🤔 Is it best to set up a HDD with GPT at the start? Thanks
Had so convert my SSD from GPT to MBR to install, even though OS and hardware are 64 Bit and the PC supports UEFI. Was interested to know the difference. Thanks for the nice and well explained video. Much appreciated.
Master Boot Record (MBR) disks use the standard BIOS partition table. GUID Partition Table (GPT) disks use Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). Drives can be much, much larger and size limits will depend on the operating system and its file systems. GPT allows for a nearly unlimited amount of partitions, and the limit here will be your operating system.
What if I have an SSD that's only 1TB in size. Can I use MBR Partition style to clone my C Drive(GPT) which has the OS installed on it, to the SSD(MBR) & use that SSD to boot up Windows?
Great video, really helped me. Can someone clue me in regards the four primary partitions?
Can only one be extended?
What was the reasoning for only having four primary?
Thanks.
Four was originally used with the first PC's. As time when on they decided they needed more. To keep it compatible with the old PC's they could not change the number of primary partitions so they added the option to change one of the primary partitions to an extended partition. The extended partitions allows additional partitions to be created to increase the total number from four and keep compatibility with older systems. So only one can be extended. The OS now days handles all this stuff for you, so you generally don't need to worry about it.
Thanks for the video series. Is part two ready
I used mbr for my 120gb ssd , can I also use mbr for my 1tb hdd at the same time? Or can I only use mbr for one of them. I have compatible hardware for both mbr and gpt [first time pc builder]
Why 2 TiB limit in MBR ? Logical Block Address (LBA) is 32 bit and disk sector size is 512 bytes. 2^32 x 2^9 = 2^41 = 2 TiB. Hence the limit. More disk spaces is not usable.
So basically, I should use GPT for 4 TB or more HDD/SSD and GPT for anything less?
GPT is a standard, everyone uses GPT these days, I haven't even heard MBR since last 2 years
@@memd777 i'm confused, i want to add one more OS (win 7) to my win10, it says "the disk is GPT" so im thinking to convert maybe just the one partition (have no idee are that posible), but i'm scary to do that (maybe i will lost all data from other partition). So i'm thinking right know, IS THERE A WINDOWS 7 THAT SUPPORT GPT???
@@xxxARBiHxxx the question is, why do you want to install windows 7 with windows 10 ? Thats the question. Windows 10 is better than windows 7 in every way possible. Its backward compatible so all apps of windows 7 can run on 10 easily. There is no reason to install windows 7 again. If it was one of unix based OS I could have understood but having 7 when you can have 10 I don't get it. And to answer your question, NO , WINDOWS 7 DOES NOT SUPPORT GPT. Don't go back in time.
@@memd777 very easy to answer my brother. i have AMD switchable graphic card, i really tried all possible ways from internet (like power options, trying XY different drivers and other things) to make my AMD available for apps and games, but it just starts on the basic Intel graphic card. have no idee why, on win7 it works perfectly, it recognizes automatically, but on win10 even when i set manualy to start on AMD it will not. it bothers me. so i wanted win 10 for working and learning and win7 for playing
@@xxxARBiHxxx makes sense. But i am pretty sure your graphic card should work with win10, i am sure there must be a way out. I would recommend you to find that way, because thats the right way, if you give up then yeah you go for win 7, but dont give up.
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Thanks sir. I appreciate your time. its very helpful. In fact I was installing Manjaro where I came access this thing. Your explanation is great. Thanks again
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I was searching for the difference of these two and your video helped me a lot to understand... Keep up the good work I'll be checking your channel...
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Hey I was trying to install a 64bit Arch in Vbox... Reformatted the entire drive to MBR tables then did the partitions for installation and all the other procedures..
Was following a slightly modified guide... For installing the bootloader it told be to skip uefi/gpt and use bios/mbr...
Issue is i enabled EFI boot and when i checked if efivars is populated it was... SO ill have to try again deciding whether i want GPT or MBR and follow the process for one.
I guess if i decide on GPT/UEFI then i shouldnt reformat entire drive to mbr before i partition for installation of arch?
Another thing is can a 64 bit OS installation take place with MBR tables?I read it supports a 32 bit installation.. Am understanding this?
As is usual with an Arch installation.. Im forced to learn a crapton of shit very fast.. :)
Great and really informative video. Now, I know what MBR and GPT partitions table are. Finaly! Thank you very much!
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hi. i bought new laptop with new m.2 ssd 512 gb. after fomatting gpu not worked. i asked to support they told me laptop missing some drivers. i updated all driver and nothing changed. the i installed linux but it didn't installed normally, was not working good. i think it's ssd has problem. it's gpt. do you prefer me to change it mbr? do you think it will work?
Since the drive is small, you can use MBR. MBR is better supported so if you are having problem it is worth trying. Since you are using a laptop and only a small drive you are not missing out on anything using MBR.
good stuff here, thank you.
Im using mbr and legacy boot. will these affect if im booting with my 1tb internal as the OS, with my 2tb external HD plugged in? Im experiencing quite a lot of blue screen after 30min of use from booting.
It shouldn't really. Go to the System Properties, and go to the Advanced tab. From here, select Startup and Recovery. Under the System Failure section, uncheck Automatically restart. This will allow you to see the bluescreen stop code. Get that and reply to our comment with the error code and we'll attempt to help you. Best of luck!
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I am curious if you do know, when all 4 partition entries of MBR are taken up what would you do if you wanted to create another one. This would be the case if you was installing another operating system for example. I don't really know the answer
One of the partitions can be what is referred to as an extended partition. This partition can contain a number of partitions. In the older operation system only 26 partitions were supported as this was how many drive letters there were. So you would have 3 primary partitions and one extended partition. The extended partition could contain another 23 partitions. Newer operating system can have more than 26. Windows disk manager will automatically change a partition to extended as required.
I assume the extending partitions are in the same format? or is it different altogether.
The extended partition could be a different format if you choose.
great explanation. thanks
Thank you.
Many Thx very useful videos...Can you please put some more HyperV Videos and I am building the New HyperV environment an that will help me.
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If I have 2 hard Drives, one is 1TB and the other is 2TB, will it show 3TB and work as well? or will it sshow only 2TB?
Thank you itreetraining: nice summary
Thanks very much.
So that is the thing mbr lockers overwrite?
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I have a question, may it not be about this specific video...
Why Hyper-V server 2012 is launched separately? bit confused about it, anyone welcome to answer.
I really needed to understand this, really thanks for the clear explanation :)
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Hi.
I am facing a very complicated situation here. Ok it goes like this, I have a 500G hard drive and it was no longer declared as an NTFS but a RAW, so I tried fixing the problem with "Parted Magic" and I couldn't fix it until I deleted the data partition table from that disk and now it doesn't want to write a new one it keeps displaying an error message. So I thought maybe if I used/coppied my other hard drives MBR and restored them to my corrupted drive maybe the problem could be solved. So can you please help me out? Can disk cloning do that job for me?
Thanks.
It sounds like there is something wrong with the hard disk. I would suggest download a checking tool from the manufacture of the drive. Also if you have it plugged into the computer using USB this can cause problems so I would try connecting it directly to the computer if you have not already.
Thanks 👍🏽 it helped me.
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excellent explanation !
Thanks very much.
dude epic just epic!!!! i almost format my new 3 Tb HDD as MBR thanks to you i will not waste a 1TB!!!!!!!!!!!!
***** The issue is not with the sector sizes. The issue is the 32bit address they use to mark the end of the partition. They went for a value that indicates where the partition ends rather than a size value. The sector size chosen does not effect this value.
4k sector sizes of MBR is something we need to add to this video. The problem with them is the operating system may have problems with them. But if it works it does allows up to 16TB drives.
***** Thanks for letting us know that. I will have a look into it.
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Bravo! Cleared up a few thing for me!
+Jason Leming Thanks! We're glad it helped you out.
Test? I am just a noob and trying to make the best choices. Thanks for the education I can apply to my new desktop.
A question if you can answer. My system is old by today's standard and it doesn't have UEFI so no GPT (at least from what I understood you need UEFI to support GPT), if I plug in a drive larger than 2TB in my system can I use the it as a storage drive and not a bootable one?
I do have Windows 7 64bit. Also if I plug in a 2TB drive will it work?
It depends which operating system you are running. If the operating system supports GPT as data drives you will be able to use it.
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Not at this stage, but we will in the future.
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Hello Sir, Could you please tell me how do i create more than 4 partition on MBR hard disk not to lost any data in the futures even when reinstalling windows.
+Jacob Kim Naulak If you use disk manager, Windows will automatically change one of the primary partitions to an extended partition. You will be able to create more than 4 partitions then. When reinstalling Windows, the install will use the existing partitions.
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So I am trying to initialize a HDD that is for storage ONLY. I have a SSD for boot. Which do I chose? MBR or GPT?
+Shawgydog Hello, you could technically use either in this instance. However, because you are not booting to it it would be suggested to use GPT as it has more advantages over MBR, especially since you aren't using it to boot.
+itfreetraining Thank you for replying so fast I really appreciate it
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Hi, you mention that for a UEFI system to be bootable the HDD has to support UEFI. Is that true also for CD/DVD players? I ask because I'm having problems using such a device to boot a Windows 10 installation disk. It gives an error 'crypto library internal error'. But when I use the same player in my mbr/bios based system I have no problems using the installation DVD. Why?
+Imran Hameed UEFI is a new system then BIOS and has a number of working parts in order to get it to work. For this reason, older software and hardware may have problems with it. If you are getting an error, you may need to update the software or hardware.
+itfreetraining Hi, do you know what the particular error I am getting, i.e. crypto library internal error means? The cd/dvd drive I am using is brand new Samsung unit (its a burner actually) and therefore should be uefi ready. The motherboard is a new Asus Z97-A/USB 3.1 and the cpu is an intel I5 - 4690K. So all hardware is new!
+Imran Hameed Can you give me the exact error that you received?
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That was my mistake i just installed my new windows on a 4 tb hdd with NBR partition
Now i have to format everything and install it again
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That is a very interesting and helpful tutorial, thanks. I recently replaced Windows XP on a 40g IDE HD with Lubuntu, XP was deleted and Lubuntu installed and booted successfully. I then decided to buy an SSD with an IDE connection ( M Sata conversion ) I fitted it into the notebook and installed Lubuntu, but it won't boot, I tried with PloP and I recieved a message saying: MBR; is valid. "No valid bootsector signature" ....I just don't get it. Doh!
I am going to take a guess that you have secure boot on. Switch off secure boot in the Bios and see if that helps.
@@itfreetraining Thanks for your reply, unfortunately I don't have a secure boot option anywhere in this ancient bios, no UEFI just legacy emulation options.
What happens if you partition a 2 tb hdd with GPT instead of MBR?
Wow! awesome video.
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thanks man! u explained it really good!
Thanks!
MBR does not support more than 2 terrabyte on a drive where windows is booting from right ? Drive /D or a external can be larger than 2 terra with a MBR boot drive (C). Must be because my external drives are just MBR style and larger than 2 terrabyte.
MBR has a limit of 2 terabytes. Thus, for boot or data drive it is limited to 2 terabytes.
Does Foxcon G41 MXE Motherboard Compatible with GPT Partition?
The motherboard shouldn't impact what partitions are supported. GPT will work as intended.
thanks so much for these informations you re good thanks again
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hey,please can you help me. My friend has been trying to install windows 7 and he gets he can't select his 1TB drive and click next because it says "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has a MBR partition table. On EFI systems, windows can only be installed to GPT disks" can you help us make it work? Thanks :)
Is the drive a solid state drive? It may be that version of Windows has problems detecting the drive. Possibly the firmware on the solid state needs to be updated. I would test the drive and make sure that it works. For 1 TB drive it should not matter if you use MBR or GPT. Also EFI does not matter if you use MBR or GPT. Only becomes a problem with the drive is larger than 2 TB.
if you already installed window 7 and have all data in your 3tb or 4tb mbr...you can use AEOMEI Partition Assistant Pro Edition To Convert Mbr To GPT Without Losing All Your Data And your motherboard must support UEFI And In disk 0 make sure to change From Your Hardisk Name To Uefi Window Boot Manager and you must have window 7 ultimate or other window 7 that support 64bit operating system in order to use Fully 3TB,4TB or larger that that On Your System.
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i havent trouble wit a portable drive
is a 4 tb
when i first bought it i plug in to my windows 7 pro pc n it read it n it was normal even had move about 500g worth of pics ,movies
than i decide to use it for an xbox one drive so i reformat it
after i sold my xbox i wanted to use back to windows but it didnt read at all so i cudnt reformat it
i plug it in my windows 10pc same problem
so i dowloaded a program that was able to read xbox one drive n
change it from xbox mode to pc
after that i was able to format it
bak to my pc
but when i plugged it back on my windows 7 pro pc it wud shut off my computer made my computer all weird that that i try to fix everything that i ended up reinstalling windows7 on that
after install i still have the same problem on that pc but not on my windows 10
that actually reads it n im able to put stuff on it
what wud be the problem?
i want to move games like gmod to hardrive which one i choose mbr or gpt?
GPT is practically the new standard, so if choose that if you have an option.
There are 3. Gpt, mbr and apple partition map
Yes there is. We will keep that in mind for future videos.
lol apple
Also mbgpt
But apple is shit
Yes but I think this is about popular computers, not Apple
I was able to partition by 3Tb GPT hard disk into 2 x 1.5TB MBR hard disk using Free MiniTool partition software. After doing that my Samsung TV is detecting and playing it.
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can i recover the hdd that is mbr and has a bad sector. but in my compitee its not displayed only in manage
You can certainly try, there are also some Linux Live CDs that provide HDD recovery capabilities. With a bad sector, it might make it difficult but it's possible to try and make the bit level copy of the drive to a good drive to access from there.
I want to update to Yosemite ( Mac OS X ) and it says "a mismatch between the mbr and gpt" what can I do
+Carlitox b Not to familiar with Yosemite. Found this link which may help.
apple.stackexchange.com/questions/198830/upgrade-to-yosemite-failed-mbr-and-gpt-dont-match
I already did it... No problems until now and its fast
+itfreetraining what is a need for patitions?
Well, if you're talking about why you would partition a drive the answer lies in segregating data, really. If you want the OS and Data areas separate you can do that partitions.
oooh ok!
So why can you plug in a external hdd and it plug &play but if you plug in an ex laptop hdd it doesn't even list ?
It should list it if you're using a USB connection, however you may have to initialize it and give it a drive letter in Disk Management.,
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Windows 11 operating system is only bootable for UEFI-based systems, so please convert from MBR to GPT and enable UEFI boot mode to continue installing and using Windows 11 operating system.