So what are MBR and GPT? In general, these two terms define two different types of disk styles or partition methods. While installing Windows on an entirely new machine from scratch, you may have or ...

So anytime you’re working with a hard disk, you’ve got to partition it before it’s usable. Partitioning has been around for quite some time now and is usually done in two forms, MBR and GPT. You might ...

Format disks / images Fix a partition table, recover a deleted partition Recover the GUID Partition Table from its backup Locate partitions which are inaccessible / ignored by the OS Verify the ...

If you set up a disk under Windows 8.x or higher, you will be confronted with the choice to select MBR or GPT. How do you select between MBR and GPT? Let’s take a look at both MBR and GPT partition ...

The format used to define the hard disk partitions in computers with UEFI startup firmware. The GUID Partition Table (GPT) replaces the previous master boot record (MBR). GPT partitions can hold 18 ...

In January 2006, Apple moved from PowerPC processors to Intel processors. This brought with it a number of changes to the way that a Macintosh works. These changes involved the move from the IBM ...

I've neve used them personally but I know parted can create them and it looks like the kernel option is CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION which is on by default in Debian, I don't have an Ubuntu machine to check ...

I looked at the image with gdisk, and it only has a MBR partition table, and there is no valid GPT partition table (see below for 'Actual behavior'). Workaround: gdisk /dev/disk/by-id/usb.... then ...