Sometimes, Disk Management does not work. You can turn to its alternative tool:AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional, which can effectively initialize a disk, SD card, SSD as MBR or GPT drive in Windows 11, 10, 8, and 7. Besides, it is also able to convert disk from MBR to GPT or G...
There are times that you need to convert MBR to GPT. The main difference between MBR and GPT is that MBR has some limitations for modern usage. Namely, MBR can only handle four primary partitions and 2TB of drive space. So if you have an Exchange Server mailbox database growing more tha...
If you decide to use Microsoft’s MBR2GPT tool to migrate your MBR drive to GPT and avoid data loss, follow the steps down below: First things first, we need to obtain the disk number. This will be used when imputing MBR2GPT commands, so it’s important to get this right. To obtai...
In general, GPT is designed to break through the limitations of MBR, especially for the storage limitations. However, many users still prefer MBR over GPT as it is still more compatible and is supported by all Windows operating systems. It is still required in some cases, as listed below: ...