{"id":9799,"date":"2017-07-24T08:40:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T08:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=9799"},"modified":"2017-07-24T08:44:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T08:44:11","slug":"check-if-your-disk-uses-mbr-or-gpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/check-if-your-disk-uses-mbr-or-gpt\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Check If Your Disk Uses MBR or GPT Partition Style"},"content":{"rendered":"

How can I determine if my disk is formatted as GPT or MBR? Since the release of Windows 8, GPT partition style is becoming a popular alternative as newer computers are shipping with UEFI firmware, and Windows 10\/8 can only boot from GPT disk on UEFI-based computers. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to find out where your disk uses MBR or GPT partition style in Windows.<\/p>\n

Method 1: Check If Your Disk Is MBR or GPT Using Disk Management Tool<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Press Windows key + X on your keyboard, and then select Computer Management<\/strong> from the pop-up menu.\n

    \"computer-management\"\n<\/li>\n

  2. Click on Disk Management<\/strong>, which appears in the left-hand side under the heading Storage<\/strong>. Right-click on the hard drive available in the center of the window, then select Properties<\/strong>.\n

    \"disk-properties\"\n<\/li>\n

  3. This will bring up the Device Properties window. Click the Volumes<\/strong> tab and you’ll see if the partition style of your disk is GUID Partition Table (GPT)<\/em> or Master Boot Record (MBR)<\/em>.\n

    \"partition-style\"\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Method 2: Check If Your Disk Is MBR or GPT Using Command Prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Open the Command Prompt<\/a> with administrative rights.<\/li>\n
    2. At the Command Prompt, type following commands one by one, pressing Enter after each.
      \ndiskpart
      \nlist disk<\/code><\/p>\n

      \"list-disk-cmd\"\n<\/li>\n

    3. It will list all disks that are connected to your PC. If a disk uses GPT, you’ll see an asterisk character (*) under the Gpt column. As you can see in the screenshot above, disk 0 is a GPT disk while disk 1 is a MBR disk.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      That’s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      How can I determine if my disk is formatted as GPT or MBR? Since the release of Windows 8, GPT partition style is becoming a popular alternative as newer computers are shipping with UEFI firmware, and Windows 10\/8 can only boot from GPT disk on UEFI-based computers. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to find […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894,3,39],"tags":[3478],"class_list":["post-9799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","category-windows-7","category-windows-8","tag-how-to-check-gpt-or-mbr-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9799"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9808,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799\/revisions\/9808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}