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Understanding GPT Partition
I just purchased a new PC.
My old PC, which I had for more than 10 years had a 1 tb hdd.
If I understand drives the the drive is MBR.
The new drive is a SSD BPT.
When I got this new one home the first thing I did was delete the extra partitions.
Needless to say when I tried to run Windows setup from a boot disk Windows said
it couldn't install because the disk is unbootable or something to that nature. Somehow
using Diskpart I got it to install.
My question is why didn't Windows require an EFI System partition like my new one?
With the older drive I had only 2 partitions System and my data partition.
Apparently I can't do that with this new PC. If I delete the EFI partition Windows won't install.
Yes I know these partitions use up a tiny amount of space. To me that isn't the point.
James