Questions tagged [gpt]
GUID Partition Table (GPT) is a format for partition tables that was designed within the UEFI specification by Intel. It was designed as the successor to the Master Boot Record partition tables.
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Safe to delete or shrink old MBR System Reserved partition after conversion to GPT?
I've seen similar questions before, but never have I seen anyone seem to recognize the difference between the MBR and EFI boot partitions, so I'm asking fresh.
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Advice for move partitions from secondary OS to primary
I'm faced with the following scenario:
I have a Thinkpad X1 Yoga laptop that came with Windows 10. I have since shrinked the NTFS partition to dual boot an Arch Linux installation, and have been using ...
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Failed to convert mbr to gpt using gdisk
I urgently needed to install new windows and because of that I converted MBR to GPT using gdisk by following this video. After that my hdd resulted into invalid dynamic and was able to recovery 3 ...
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Windows OS partition formatted and unable to proceed with the installation
My Sony Vaio laptop was giving lot issues so I decided to re-install the OS.
I saw few videos on the YouTube on how to re-install the OS on Sony Vaio laptop and proceeded for re-installation.
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How do I change my disk from GPT to MBR (Without destruction of data)?
My laptop has Windows 8.1 currently running, and I plan to install Windows 10. The 8.1 that I am currently running is on Disk 0. I would like to convert Disk 0 to MBR, so that I can use EasyBCD to add ...
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mac os gpt show command shows multiple Master Boot Record partitions in parts (MBR Part 12) on wiped internal hard drive
I ordered a used apple oem ssd hard drive off of the internet to replace my macs fried ssd. I intalled it and booted to internet recovery to do a clean wipe and a clean install. Upon inspection of the ...
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How to convert from EFI to MBR boot loader (and / or GPT disk to MBR disk) in Arch Linux without losing data
I've installed arch linux on my disk sdc,where sdc1 is the efi partition and sdc2 the root partition. I'm also trying to boot this installation with esxi 7,but it seems that it refuses to boot because ...
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How to safely install Windows OS as GPT Partition Scheme
I would like to install Windows on my machine using the GPT Partition Scheme, however I have come across several articles about "bricking" the computer if you change the boot mode (UEFI/BIOS/...
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How can I convert my partition from GPT to MBR and make my system dual boot Kali and Windows?
I want someone to help me how to install Kali on my laptop and want to know how to convert a GPT partition to MBR.
I searched on YouTube but most of the popular tutorials didn’t work. Even after ...
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Windows cannnot be installed after using Diskpart to convert to MBR
ok so long story short simply trying to reinstall Windows 10 on a disk in a dual boot setup (Linux is on a physically separate drive and launches without issue).
First issue was when using Rufus USB ...
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How to make a system disk image of windows 10 (GPT)?
I used to make a backup of my system partition (Win 7 MBR) with drivexml, so when something goes wrong I could restore my image along with progs and settings.
Now I got new ssd and installed win 10 ...
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Microsoft UEFI-Compliant System not showing in Device Manager
I installed Windows 10 Pro 64bit on a GPT SSD and started Windows on UEFI Firmware. When I go into Device Manager, I can't see System Firmware and Microsoft UEFI-Compliant System even when I showed ...
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Is it possible to make a mbr legacy bootcamp win 10 from a gpt partitioned hdd on catalina 10.15.7 with bootcamp 6?
I tried to install win10 to ssd via efi boot on my macbook air 2012, it ran pretty well as far as performance, but because it's pre-uefi it makes it the garbage windows version with no sound, no ...
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Convert Windows Machine from GPT to MBR Partitioning Without Data Loss
Is it possible to convert a Windows machine from GPT partitioning to MBR partitioning without erasing the disk or having any data loss?
I realize that the normal thing most people are trying to do is ...
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Fixing Windows Boot on UEFI with MBR partition
The laptop I currently own came with Windows 10 preinstalled. I installed Ubuntu 19.10 onto it (in dual boot). Back then I had no idea about MBR, GPT, BIOS, UEFI or any of that stuff, just followed ...
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Repair EFI/GPT Bootloader for virtual Windows 10
An interrupted system update caused the Windows 10 Pro on my virtual machine to get into a Diagnostic and Repair Mode loop and I am trying to fix. I need to access and use a certain program that is ...
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One of Windows installations on the disk fails to boot
I have two Windows 10 installations on the same GPT disk; today, one of these installations stopped booting while another one works without problems. The booting process gets to the stage where it ...
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Restore Windows Boot Manager with incomplete C:\Windows\Boot folder
Some time ago I installed a larger Windows update, I guess also using an external flash medium to have enough space. Since it took some time, I left it running over the night. I think the next morning ...
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Can I convert my disk from MBR to GPT and BIOS to UEFI(hp laptop 15-ra0xx)
So hello everyone!
my laptop has MBR disk and BIOS but on boot menu it also shows boot from EFI file. Does my laptop support UEFI? And if so how do I convert it?
hp laptop 15-ra0xx
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Used mbr2gpt tool on a (I think) non-UEFI machine, can't boot anymore
I found out that an old desktop I had is still working. Last time it was used it had Windows 10 installed, although the hardware is almost 10 years old. I decide I want to have a dual boot with ...
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How to extend Linux non root partition
There was 3TB EBS volume attached to an ec2 instance. I have increased the volume to 4TB.
I am trying to extending the partition size.
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NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
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Computer doesnt boot after changing disk partition to GPT
I have an HP pro 3500 PC with windows 7 installed on it, when I wanted to format it with windows 10 it prompts a message saying "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. the selected disk has an ...
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Grub 2.04 install says it's successful but drops into the rescue shell
Our hardware is successfully running with UEFI/GRUB 2.02. The internal disk (/dev/sda) is GPT and the first partition starts at 1Mib, is 5Gb, and formatted as vfat. We are running Gentoo and using ...
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Black screen with colored dots when trying to boot from USB using rufus GPT partition on my laptop eMMC
As I mentioned in the title, I'm trying to install Windows 10 on my Dell Inspirion 14 which only has a 32Gb eMMC (no HDD). I have been reading a lot of articles saying that I should run Rufus with ...
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I have a disk that Linux sees with a perfectly fine GPT with one NTFS partition, but Win10 says the entire disk is uninitialized
In Win10 I tried to convert from MBR to GPT using the "non-destructive" gptgen tool. It flubbed the whole thing and Win10 said the disk was write protected and I couldn't use it, etc.
So I brought ...
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Do you need to reserve 2014 free sectors at the beginning of a data-only drive?
Let's assume you use a new drive as a secondary drive in you PC and plan to store only your data there. (In my case, it's %USERS% of Windows and /home of Linux. The programs and system will be left on ...
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How to fix not enough space when trying to convert to GPT from MBR without losing data?
I have a nearly 1TB Ext. Hard Drive which has 2 partitions: One which is about 350GB with 250GB already taken up (FAT32), and another which is roughly 580GB with no space taken up (NTFS). I need to at ...
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Cannot install Windows 10 on hard disk
I have an old laptop that I installed Linux on, overwriting Windows. I am currently trying to reinstall Windows 10, but I'm running into some issues. My installation media is a bootable USB created ...
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Installing Windows 10 without losing data
I have a 750 GB HDD with two partitions.
One partition has 550 GB with my files so I want to save it.
The other partition had Windows 7 on it.
So I booted Windows 10 from USB, formatted the Windows ...
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Dual boot Windows 10 partition has become non-bootable. How can I make it bootable again?
I have a Dell Precision laptop with Windows 10 Professional on a pair of partitions on the main (MBR, 480 GB) SSD. Under linux they show as /dev/sda1 (576 MB NTFS) and /dev/sda2 (43 GB NTFS). They ...
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Installing Windows 10 as secondary OS on GPT disk in UEFI mode
So I uninstalled Windows 10 from my computer a few months ago, and started using Ubuntu as my main OS. But, I've been having some issues with my graphics card on Ubuntu lately, so I decided to finally ...
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MBR to GPT without data loss without any tools
I was installing Ubantu on dual boot with Windows 10 and my disk type was set to MBR.
3 primary partitions and 1 extended. And one of the drive was empty i kept this purposely i thought i could use ...
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MBR and GPT Partition style
I have two storage drives in my laptop.A SSD and a HDD.I want to install windows 10 in UEFI mode on the SSD .The both disks are MBR partition style.so i'll need to convert SSD to GPT.
Do i need to ...
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How can I install Windows 7 64bit on both MBR or GPT partition?
I want to make a multiboot usb toolkit with different versions of Linux and Windows. I've read that you can only install Windows 7 on MBR and Windows 10 on GPT (tell me if I am wrong).
I found the ...
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VMWare - GPT PMBR after adding a Disk to existing one -GPT PMBR size mismatch will be corrected by w(rite)
we've added a new disk to VMware fusion VM. Below fdisk -l output:
Disk /dev/loop1: 91.4 MiB, 95805440 bytes, 187120 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
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How can I see my GUID partition table (gpt) physically with hexdump?
With hexdump, I can see the binary content of the master boot record, for example. Similarly, I want to see what my gpt looks like. Is it located in EFI System Partition somewhere? I have only found ...
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GPT disk with 2 Windows 10 LTSC Bootable partitions
I'm setting up a machine that requires 2 bootable partitions with a disk that's setup for GPT. The reason for 2 identical OS has to do with the applications that will be installed on each partition. ...
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increased size of disk in a Virtual machine, but gdisk doesn't want to use the new space
I have a VM with a virtual disk (visible as /dev/sdb) with a size of 10G
The admin increased the size of the virtualdisk to 60G.
I rebooted the machine and see now, that the disk is bigger.
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How to boot Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H motherboard with a 4 TB initialized WD HC310 HDD?
I have a Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H motherboard and I purchased a WD HC310 (0B35948 HUS726T4TALN6L4) HDD.
After I initialize the new HDD the PC cannot pass the POST (just freezes).
If we detach the new HDD,...
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Why there's no DD image for Windows 10 UEFI+GPT+NTFS [closed]
I'm currently installing an Windows 10 and realized that, it's so difficult to create a windows 10 bootable installaion media.
Since installaion.wim is larger than 4 GiB, FAT32 is not working. I ...
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Broken Windows bootloader on dual boot Windows/Arch Linux
I have 2 nvme drives one with Windows 10 and the other Arch Linux installed. I was under the impression that the 2 OSes have their bootloaders on their own disks which is not the case in retrospect.
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There is no external DVD Rom in Bios in UEFI mode
I need to install Windows 10 on my laptop (ACER Aspire 3). My hard disk scheme is GPT and I need to boot my windows in UEFI mode.
After connecting my external DVD ROM in UEFI mode my laptop can't ...
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Is it possible to install Windows 10 on MBR using UEFI?
I need to move Windows 10 from my HDD to my SSD but apparently I have to use a GPT instead of MBR. The real problem is: in this SSD I already have installed Linux in a second partition, so if I change ...
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Windows keeps changing GPT table when it updates. How to prevent it?
Running dual boot on a single disk with several partitions. Apparently a lot of times windows will modify the partition table in such a way that linux/grub stops being the default. This happens once ...
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Can Gparted make a jump move of a partition?
There is a similar question: GParted moving partition from beginning of disk to the end of a disk?
I know I can move a partition left / right if there is a free space to the left or to the right of a ...
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How to create a partition with gdsik without naming it?
I'm currently looking for alternatives to graphical programs for partitioning my hard drive. So I'm searching for an easy command line tool for it. Since my hard drive has a GPT partition table the ...
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Create many GPT partitions
Let's say I want to create 128-1024 GPT partitions on a SSD 1 TB drive (smallest possible, for even FAT). Let's also say that I can do that in Linux Mint 19.3. I assume that I do not want to create ...
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Dual Boot Win 7 on MBR with Win 10 on GPT
I am currently using Windows 7 and want to install Windows 10 in a dual boot configuration.
My Windows 7 disk uses MBR.
My Asus motherboard bios shows
CSM: enabled
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What are all those partition table type in gparted?
I was just curious about what are those available partition table types in gparted useful for. Is there any reason to use them instead of MBR or GPT ?
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What partition table use for a hard drive containing only media data?
I have a 250 GB hard drive that I'm going to use exclusively to store media data like videos, images and musics. I'm not going to load any OS on it.
So I've completely wiped its content and it ...
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