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GPT vs MBR
Ok folks, these two partition formats are confusing to me and looks like a lot of others too. I have seen what a hard drive looks like with GPT partitions, lots of partitions taking up a lot of hard drive space!!! I have seen MBR partitions, not needing a lot of hard drive space. System reserved, and your primary partition. Simple, and works.
GPT seems to have 3 or 4 partitions, one even being a fat partition. Now I understand the fact that a GPT partition can have lots of partitions on just one drive, I get that. MBR has a limit of 4, I think. But what if the user has one SSD drive as the boot drive 250gb and a 1TB sata drive installed. Is their any reason this setup would have to have a GPT partition on any of these 2 drives??? If the computer is only 1 year old, does this mean the computer MUST use a GPT partition?? I have no need for any stupid recovery partition, sorry just MY feelings on recovery partitions. That is why I buy backup software. I make disk image backups, and put them on a separate drive.
The reason I am asking these questions is because of a new computer I just bought, still in the mail, won't get it till next week. So I am trying to figure out why I would need or be forced too, use GPT partitions. Hopefully one of the answers will not be.......you have to use GPT partition because of the system motherboard or bios.
Hope I explained my questions on this issue. I do not understand anyone's computer being forced to use GPT unless the computer for what ever reason can only use GPT.