- Click Change now to start the operation immediately or Place in queue to add this task to the list of
pending changes for later execution.
Converting a Partition Table
Your storage device may have GPT (GUID Partition Table), MBR (Master Boot Record), including dynamic disk
configurations, or a hybrid GPT+MBR partition table.
GPT is now used on Windows and Mac computers as the primary partition scheme, while MBR used to be the main
and only partition scheme for Windows computers up to Vista. A hybrid GPT+MBR partition scheme is a necessity
for Apple BootCamp users. Dynamic disk configurations are mostly employed by business.
Our program allows easy non-destructive conversion between various partition schemes:
- Basic GPT <> Basic MBR disk conversion. Please note that only 64-bit Windows OSes since Vista are able to
boot from a GPT disk. So if you’ve got a 32-bit Windows OS accommodated on an MBR disk, it won’t start
up after converting to GPT. - Dynamic GPT/MBR > Basic MBR disk conversion. Please note that our program can only process dynamic
disks containing solid simple volumes (without extension).
- Click Disks & Volumes on the sidebar.
- Left click a disk in the working area, then select Convert MBR disk to GPT/Convert GPT disk to
MBR/Convert dynamic to basic on the sidebar (available operation depends on the chosen storage
device). - Conversion from MBR to GPT doesn’t require any configuration.
But when attempting to convert a basic GPT disk or a dynamic disk containing several volumes, our
program will ask you to choose the preferred number of primary partitions, and the rest (if there are more
than four volumes on the disk) will be converted to logical disks within the extended partition. It has to do
with the limitations of the MBR partitioning scheme, that does not allow more than four primary partitions
on one disk or one extended and three primary partitions.