Convert 1.5TB disk from MBR to GPT

Hi there @cereberus

I have to disagree with your suggestion that it's pointless to have GPT drives if they are less than 2.2 TB -- on a laptop or typical machine you could be correct but remember if using MBR you can only have up to 4 primary partitions on Windows plus you can get into horrible screw ups with the hideous concept known as Logical Partitions. GPT which is based on the cocept of GUUIDS can have as many partitions as you want or need.

(With current GUUIDS there are more combinations than there are estimated seconds left until the end of the Universe -- never mind the lifetime of the Sun - probably another 5 Billion years or so --humans will have long since departed planet earth before then -- natural Sun warming as the Hydrogen gets burned up will make the planet uninhabitable anyway after around another 500 million years or so !!!).

There's no problem in having as many drives as possible as GPT - the only proviso if you have early hardware or running things like XP / W7 x86 on REAL hardware you can't boot from a GPT drive. On VM's you can set the boot to UEFI enabled even if the real (physical) machine boots from an MBR drive.

Cheers
jimbo

jimbo45 said:

Hi there @cereberus

I have to disagree with your suggestion that it's pointless to have GPT drives if they are less than 2.2 TB -- on a laptop or typical machine you could be correct but remember if using MBR you can only have up to 4 primary partitions on Windows plus you can get into horrible screw ups with the hideous concept known as Logical Partitions. GPT which is based on the cocept of GUUIDS can have as many partitions as you want or need.

(With current GUUIDS there are more combinations than there are estimated seconds left until the end of the Universe -- never mind the lifetime of the Sun - probably another 5 Billion years or so --humans will have long since departed planet earth before then -- natural Sun warming as the Hydrogen gets burned up will make the planet uninhabitable anyway after around another 500 million years or so !!!).

There's no problem in having as many drives as possible as GPT - the only proviso if you have early hardware or running things like XP / W7 x86 on REAL hardware you can't boot from a GPT drive. On VM's you can set the boot to UEFI enabled even if the real (physical) machine boots from an MBR drive.

Cheers
jimbo

I agree re. more than 4 primary partitions on but very few people would use more than four on a data drive.

jumanji said:

Hi Ztruker,

I couldn't replicate what you did to convert to GPT when the disk was already GPT :). Please see the screenshot below .

When I tried it on already GPT Disk 2, both in the left Panel as well as the rightclick Menu of Disk 2 in AOMEI Partition Assistant, what I see is only " Convert to MBR". There is no way I can do a GPT to GPT conversion.

I wonder what I actually did then? What you see is how I would expect it to work.

I did this while booted from Kyhi's Rescue PE Environment. I'll boot it again and take a quick look.