Timeline for Converting between GPT and MBR hard drive without losing data
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| Feb 12, 2021 at 4:43 | comment | added | sancho.s ReinstateMonicaCellio | serverfault.com/questions/963178/… | |
| Feb 3, 2021 at 18:51 | vote | accept | Mahmood Darwish | ||
| Jan 31, 2020 at 1:55 | history | edited | slm | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 26, 2020 at 13:32 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Dec 5, 2019 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/super_user/status/1202694256240058368 | ||
| Oct 8, 2019 at 19:08 | answer | added | johnf | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jun 6, 2019 at 9:19 | answer | added | clarkttfu | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 24, 2017 at 14:01 | comment | added | Rod Smith | Why do you want to do this conversion? It may not be necessary, and in fact may be quite inadvisable. OTOH, there are some legitimate reasons to want to do this (such as if you want to use the disk with a GPT-unaware OS). | |
| Sep 21, 2017 at 8:56 | answer | added | Krunal Mevada | timeline score: 66 | |
| Sep 17, 2017 at 6:44 | comment | added | Kamil Maciorowski | Also: are you going to boot OS from this HDD? | |
| Sep 16, 2017 at 18:24 | comment | added | Kamil Maciorowski |
It's true that GPT is superior to MBR, therefore many partition layouts cannot be converted to MBR; but some layouts can. Post the result of Linux command gdisk -l /dev/sdX (substitute sdX with your HDD) so we can tell more.
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| Sep 16, 2017 at 12:36 | comment | added | Biswapriyo | Yes that's possible. But you have to delete the OS partition to proceed. Use any bootable partition manager e.g. link. | |
| Sep 16, 2017 at 11:56 | comment | added | AFH | If you boot a diagnostic disc or a Linux Live system, then you can back up from there. | |
| Sep 16, 2017 at 11:56 | comment | added | LPChip | Converting is not possible. You have to remove the partition and create a new one. GPT is superior to MBR though, so I would keep GPT. One of the limits of MBR is the maximum size a partition can be. I believe 2 TB is its limit. | |
| Sep 16, 2017 at 11:53 | comment | added | Mahmood Darwish | @AFH how can I make a back up if I can't boot the laptop ? | |
| Sep 16, 2017 at 11:51 | comment | added | AFH | You have to assume that data will be lost, so take a back-up first. | |
| Sep 16, 2017 at 11:47 | history | asked | Mahmood Darwish | CC BY-SA 3.0 |