Wednesday, September 16, 2020

How to find out the type of MBR or GPT hard drive partition

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Maybe you are planning to reinstall Windows on your computer, first determine your Bios Legacy or UEFI, and your computer's current hard disk partition type! Why should you know the type of MBR or GPT hard drive partition? yes, because later when you reinstall Windows, you already know I will make a windows installer for the MBR or GPT partition type.

Well, this time I will give a tutorial for those of you who are confused about how to find out the type of your hard drive partition when you decide you want to reinstall your windows computer. I will use the software here to provide information on MBR or GPT hard drive partition types, why? because later you can convert or convert from MBR to GPT usually or vice versa.

The first thing you need is the AOMEI Software Partition Assistant software, which you can download below.

Jump to the steps How to find out the type of MBR or GPT hard drive partition
  • Install AOMEI Software Partition Assistant first
  • then you run the software, and will see a display like the image below

 

AOMEI Software Partition Assistant

  • See the image info above, it says Basic MBR, that means the type of partition used is MBR
  • Meanwhile, if it is written GPT, the partition type used is GPT.
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Conclusion: from the info above, you can see the current partition type on your hard disk, so that when you reinstall Windows, you already know that your partition type is MBR or GPT.

Hopefully what I have shared, it can be useful and useful, friends. That is all and thank you.