Just wanna clarify something: BIOS and UEFI aren't opposites (i think you guys understand what I'm saying) Your BIOS just handles Basic Input Output (forgot what the S stands for). In the BIOS, atleast in my motherboard's BIOS, you can set it to Legacy or UEFI. So it's either Legacy with MBR or UEFI with GPT. Not BIOS or UEFI 😅. Hope this helps
Andrew I'm just a hobbiest but i been playing around for a long time. You are mistaken about partitions if you say a 4T hard drive you can't have two 2T partitions I do it all the time on my older MBR machines. I usually limit my partitions to 1.9Tb so they can work on older machines. the largest I have tried is my 5T western dig 2.5" usb Its not perfect like all hard drives you lose about 10% for magical stuff i can't exlaine I have complained about the drive manufacturers cheating but nobody gave a shit. As far as EFI I know what it is but it don't like me and I struggle navigating around from lack of pratice. thats why i'm here.
I have windows 7 with premiere pro installed, should I stick to MBR for each hard drive I connect to it or make them GPT? Want to download video to an external SSD drive and edit with that hard drive on Windows 7.
Finally someone who knows what he's talking about and answers in FIVE minutes + articulates in order to be understood by everyone on the planet !! Great job and thank yo so much !!! 🤘👏
Thanks for this video Andrew. You just taught something to an old computer geek of 75 years. Let it not be said that we can't learn from somebody a whole lot younger than ourselves. How nice to learn from such a very smart guy too. Thanks again.
Aww leave him alone, he's excellent as is. Knows his stuff and wants to help others build their own stuff. I could've used him16 years ago when I built 3 of my own, and one with parts from 2000 that blows the new stuff away for speed. Not a gamer, but love the equipment needed to play the latest and best gamer stuff. Thanks Andrew, just a fluke, but had someone ask me what the difference between MBR and UEFI, rather GPT, but I knew UEFI used GPT drives but didn't know off the top what the size split max was.
@- i can't imagine staying inside playing fake games as a kid...we were out living, fighting and hooligan stuff. hot rods, guns, chicks, etc...this poor guy will never NOT have to pay for it. sad really. our country is DOOMED!
I wish everyone on youTube would go back to making video and tutorials this way .. no loud annoying music in the intro, or panhandling for likes and subs, no in video ads for sponsors... ugh! this was a breath of fresh air. You told me everything I needed to know in concise, lay terms and in a coherent and straightforward manner. Thank you sir.
hey Andrew, I have no idea about how old you are and honestly it does not matter at all. What I'm saying here is that you are geared up for teaching (not only or particularly computer stuff). you certainly master the art of explaining things for an average joe like me to understand fairly technical stuff. Thanks bud and keep on sharing your knowledge, this world needs more guys like you! Hans J. Plourde
You can use command prompt to convert a drive from MBR to GPT or GPT to MBR. This comes in handy with cheaply built premade 'Gamer PCs' when the first power up doesn't boot Windows and gives a configuration error. I learned this on the fly fixing a computer for a family member and had no idea what MBR and GPT was as I am a web developer. I would like to note that the PC I was working on had a 512GB M.2 drive that was configured to GBT. I couldn't use a USB stick to repair or reinstall windows, so I had to convert the drive to MBR using command prompt. After converting it to MBR, I was able to install windows, and everything went normal from there. I came here to learn the difference so thank you for the information.
With the rise of Windows 11 requirement being UEFI and needs GPT Disk format it's nice to have people explaining this sort of terminology to educate ourselves on what we need when installing Windows 11.
You can convert from mbr to gpt without loosing data via the command prompt mbr2gpt tool, I've tried it a couple of times specially to clone to NVME. I bought a sata SSD, sata M.2 & NVME SSDs. Installed mbr installations on all sata drives, converted to gpt and cloned to the NVME drive and all worked without a problem. First boot is a bit slow but after it makes it's own ajustments after reboot it's all good. And cloning to a smaller drive is fine, acronis sometimes adjusts it itself to fit to a smaller drive, if not Macrium reflect allows you to do so
I'm remember a long time ago the first hard disk that I had could only hold about 160MB and today's hard drives hold well over 8TB of data. It's no wonder why we need a new partitioning scheme for hard disks.
I always try to explain this MBR and GPT difference to people after 8 beers in night clubs at 3 AM with the same enthusiasm, and it usually don't end well.
I'm a computer repair technician, and I get some old-ass systems sometimes. But even so, I very rarely see systems with an old-fashioned legacy BIOS. UEFI has been around forever now. Unless your computer is older than dirt, just use GPT.
Well met sir. I just added a SSD for additional storage, but haven't added a drive in so long I had brain freeze when I saw the two options...thanks for clearing it up.
Reason your usb drive not being recognized by some consoles and bluray players is GPT. Keep everything that is external and under 2tb in MBR and FAT32. Everything internal should by on GPT.
My problem with MBR was the hidden MBR partition. I finally figured out that I could use DISKPART to remove it so that I could clone onto the drive. Most people don't yet have drives larger than 2TB except in NAS or camera systems.
I was lazy and cloned my SSD to a new M.2 gen 3 nvme drive and the cloning software I used formatted it to GPT, which was not ideal. So did a searched and found that third party software can reformat it without loosing the files. I used Partition Assistant and worked, though it was not free.
First of all its not BIOS vs UEFI its legacy vs UEFI any kind of computer has to go through a BIOS thats why if you go in startup tab of task manager you see last BIOS time in right top. Second win 10 runs on UEFI so older machines used to run UEFI on MBR. Third a reliable way to convert MBR to GPT is by using a tool called AOMEI partition assistant.
I just recently converted an MBR to GPT and it wasn't that hard (I converted my whole disk including the partition C: only on CMD) The method is easy but the requirements are easier: 1. Open CMD as admin: 2. Type diskpart 3.list disk If there are more than 3 partitions delete one (like the recovery partition) 3.1 type "sel vol (whichever u want to delete) 3.2 type in "delete partition" ⚠️⚠️⚠️Be careful to not delete the C:/ partition⚠️⚠️⚠️ 4. Type exit 5. Type"Reagent /disable" 6.type mbr2gpt /validate /disk: (any number u want) /AllowafullOS 7.(if says compatible or smth like that) then type mbr2gpt /convert /AllowafullOS 8. Done... Now restart your PC for some reason and check on disk manager if it says GPT or "GUID Partition Table"
yay! more vids like this please!!! I am not shocked at all that you are so knowledgeable! We have a SENIOR systems engineer at our company who is only 26 but has been in that position for 3 years! I am never shocked by a young tech guru. I am usually shocked when people who are old know things lol
MBR to GPT without data loss works with EaseUs Partition Master Prof Edition. Some time ago this was free, but now you need a license for about $40....
Here's the gist of the answer to my question. I bought a 4tb ssd drive and the only way I can use full capacity is to plug it in as an external drive to my laptop. I can't make use of its speed at bootup which is why I got it in the first place. I only found out about the connection to uefi after I already did 2x9hour os migrations. You ask why I didn't do my research before I purchased an ssd drive? I've got like four >4tb external drives already hooked up to my laptop. Tech left me in the dust while I was doing other things.
i ran into a issue with my server installation on a 12TB RIAD and windows would petition it weirdly .. and id only end up with 2TB lol .. took me 3 weeks to figure out why .. GPT solved everything
OK, so get a new drive, Boot Bios to UEFI, install windows to need drive. Done. Thanks M8te. I'll just back up the document and app data on my old drive later.
Awesome video! I came here looking to see if I can put GPTJ on a Raspberry Pi, but this taught me stuff I didn't know I never knew, and I needed to know this. Thank you!
Found the playlist, and added it to my playlists. I hope to build a PC this year, and will definitely check this series out first! (Unless someone else builds it for me, or if I forget)
I got a computer from dell, and they had it set to Legacy boot. I found a program called (AOMEI Partition Assistant). It converted my hard drive from MBR to GTP perfectly.
So how to convert a MBR drive to GPT. There's 2 ways, the hard way is to get stuck in a boot loop and somehow use the command line to do it, but I've forgotten and I don't want any1 to go thru the same horrible experience as I did. Jokes aside. This method will erase your data so back it up. Also, DON'T DO THIS TO YOUR C drive (where your windows is installed). If you want to make your C drive GPT, you'll have to re-install windows. Firstly, you have to unmount the drive you wanna convert. This means you have to boot of an external usb or hdd (or even another hdd in your computer) with a different copy of windows/linux (pop os works for me) 2. After booting of the usb drive, you go to the drive you wanna convert, and format the drive and wipe all data (this is why you need to backup everything). 3. Change the partition table to gpt.
There is no hardware change. Only data is partitioned in a different way. Then why do you need to buy a new drive? Just backup all the data and convert it to GPT after removing the existing partitions.
Great video, very helpful. My last doubt is if the bootable flash drive should be in fat32 or ntfs, I've seen some conflicting answers online of people saying ntfs won't boot uefi, is that true? Cheers
I just bought an SSD and considering should I just clone windows OS on WD hard drive to my new SSD, or should I just reinstall windows 10 to my new SSD. I don't wanna lose any files on my old drive.
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Just wanna clarify something:
BIOS and UEFI aren't opposites (i think you guys understand what I'm saying)
Your BIOS just handles Basic Input Output (forgot what the S stands for).
In the BIOS, atleast in my motherboard's BIOS, you can set it to Legacy or UEFI.
So it's either Legacy with MBR or UEFI with GPT.
Not BIOS or UEFI 😅. Hope this helps
Basic Input Output System
very helpful
Andrew I'm just a hobbiest but i been playing around for a long time. You are mistaken about partitions if you say a 4T hard drive you can't have two 2T partitions I do it all the time on my older MBR machines. I usually limit my partitions to 1.9Tb so they can work on older machines. the largest I have tried is my 5T western dig 2.5" usb Its not perfect like all hard drives you lose about 10% for magical stuff i can't exlaine I have complained about the drive manufacturers cheating but nobody gave a shit. As far as EFI I know what it is but it don't like me and I struggle navigating around from lack of pratice. thats why i'm here.
I have windows 7 with premiere pro installed, should I stick to MBR for each hard drive I connect to it or make them GPT? Want to download video to an external SSD drive and edit with that hard drive on Windows 7.
@@amitmadan496 this should not be an issue either way. I suggest moving to gpt when you upgrade from windows 7, but for now it's probably fine
No special intro, no bullshit, no ads, just info. Thx kid. You saved me a lot of time.
Me before this video : what knowledge this kid can give?!?
Me after video : I have learnt much for today.
AWW you leave him alone, too. He's pretty good.
@@nash984954 bro that’s what he’s saying
@@nash984954 r/WOOSH
Finally someone who knows what he's talking about and answers in FIVE minutes + articulates in order to be understood by everyone on the planet !! Great job and thank yo so much !!! 🤘👏
Thanks for this video Andrew. You just taught something to an old computer geek of 75 years. Let it not be said that we can't learn from somebody a whole lot younger than ourselves. How nice to learn from such a very smart guy too. Thanks again.
this guys brain is slightly big
Guys with ext frontal cortex have ,good critical thinking
So we need him ....lol
Aww leave him alone, he's excellent as is. Knows his stuff and wants to help others build their own stuff. I could've used him16 years ago when I built 3 of my own, and one with parts from 2000 that blows the new stuff away for speed. Not a gamer, but love the equipment needed to play the latest and best gamer stuff.
Thanks Andrew, just a fluke, but had someone ask me what the difference between MBR and UEFI, rather GPT, but I knew UEFI used GPT drives but didn't know off the top what the size split max was.
@- i can't imagine staying inside playing fake games as a kid...we were out living, fighting and hooligan stuff. hot rods, guns, chicks, etc...this poor guy will never NOT have to pay for it. sad really. our country is DOOMED!
@@nash984954 r/WHOOSH
No games from a gamer! Only straight, factual and helpful talk! Thanks!!!
Bought a new hdd today and was confused af, thanks for this video my dude haha
Happy to help!
FOUND YOU!!!!
thanks for the vids bro, the IT community always needs more IT youtubers. It should be a movement, we need as much It youtubers as possible ASAP
I wish everyone on youTube would go back to making video and tutorials this way .. no loud annoying music in the intro, or panhandling for likes and subs, no in video ads for sponsors... ugh! this was a breath of fresh air. You told me everything I needed to know in concise, lay terms and in a coherent and straightforward manner. Thank you sir.
I converted with aomei partition assistant, it worked well for me.
hey Andrew,
I have no idea about how old you are and honestly it does not matter at all.
What I'm saying here is that you are geared up for teaching (not only or particularly computer stuff).
you certainly master the art of explaining things for an average joe like me to understand fairly technical stuff.
Thanks bud and keep on sharing your knowledge, this world needs more guys like you!
Hans J. Plourde
Thank you for the wonderful comment!
Best video on RUclips about this topic. Thank you and best greetings from Germany
It is really nice to convert my mbr disk to gpt with aomei, worked like a charm.
You can use command prompt to convert a drive from MBR to GPT or GPT to MBR. This comes in handy with cheaply built premade 'Gamer PCs' when the first power up doesn't boot Windows and gives a configuration error. I learned this on the fly fixing a computer for a family member and had no idea what MBR and GPT was as I am a web developer. I would like to note that the PC I was working on had a 512GB M.2 drive that was configured to GBT. I couldn't use a USB stick to repair or reinstall windows, so I had to convert the drive to MBR using command prompt. After converting it to MBR, I was able to install windows, and everything went normal from there. I came here to learn the difference so thank you for the information.
With the rise of Windows 11 requirement being UEFI and needs GPT Disk format it's nice to have people explaining this sort of terminology to educate ourselves on what we need when installing Windows 11.
You were quick to the point and told me what I needed to know. Thanks dude!
Thank you! Your video saved me from making a big mistake
Mini tools partition .. is converting from mbr to gpt without losing data
nice work, selected GPT for my 4TB drive after the first few mins, big time saver.
For anyone stuck in w11 installation gpt problems. Shift f10 and disk part to convert it to gpt. Takes a few seconds.
Super comprehensive explanation that answers the question - Why do I need to switch to GPT other than windows 11. good job sir.
Bruh, you`re the new Jesus, I swear. You just gained a new subscriber ❤❤
I've been in the tech field for years but didn't even know this lol. Appreciate the advice
You can convert from mbr to gpt without loosing data via the command prompt mbr2gpt tool, I've tried it a couple of times specially to clone to NVME. I bought a sata SSD, sata M.2 & NVME SSDs. Installed mbr installations on all sata drives, converted to gpt and cloned to the NVME drive and all worked without a problem. First boot is a bit slow but after it makes it's own ajustments after reboot it's all good.
And cloning to a smaller drive is fine, acronis sometimes adjusts it itself to fit to a smaller drive, if not Macrium reflect allows you to do so
I'm remember a long time ago the first hard disk that I had could only hold about 160MB and today's hard drives hold well over 8TB of data. It's no wonder why we need a new partitioning scheme for hard disks.
I always try to explain this MBR and GPT difference to people after 8 beers in night clubs at 3 AM with the same enthusiasm, and it usually don't end well.
I'm a computer repair technician, and I get some old-ass systems sometimes. But even so, I very rarely see systems with an old-fashioned legacy BIOS. UEFI has been around forever now. Unless your computer is older than dirt, just use GPT.
Well met sir. I just added a SSD for additional storage, but haven't added a drive in so long I had brain freeze when I saw the two options...thanks for clearing it up.
Everything a tutorial/troubleshoot video is supposed to be. I was back to doing what i was doing by 1:35 in, with all the info i needed. Good vid.
Reason your usb drive not being recognized by some consoles and bluray players is GPT. Keep everything that is external and under 2tb in MBR and FAT32. Everything internal should by on GPT.
MiniTool Partition Wizard Pro is the answer to easy conversion between the two types.
So, today my lecturer was a young kid, LOL... Thanks Mr Lecturer, you saved me quite from a lot of anxiety as to what to choose...
My problem with MBR was the hidden MBR partition. I finally figured out that I could use DISKPART to remove it so that I could clone onto the drive. Most people don't yet have drives larger than 2TB except in NAS or camera systems.
dope video bro. showing us old heads how to level up. keep posting
The way I see it,
If your boot drive is 2TB or less use MBR
If your boot drive is 3TB or higher use UEFI
MBR is an old partition type that can take max 4 partitions and only 2 TB size .
GPT can take max 128 partitions an unlimited size .
I was lazy and cloned my SSD to a new M.2 gen 3 nvme drive and the cloning software I used formatted it to GPT, which was not ideal. So did a searched and found that third party software can reformat it without loosing the files. I used Partition Assistant and worked, though it was not free.
Well software for cloning MBR type of disks is mostly free but the same software will require you to buy a license to clone GPT disk.
Dude... You're AWESOME.!!!
Thanks for the video and keep it up... 👍👍😎
Thanks kid. Your explanation was straightforward. Hope your channel grows.
First of all its not BIOS vs UEFI its legacy vs UEFI any kind of computer has to go through a BIOS thats why if you go in startup tab of task manager you see last BIOS time in right top.
Second win 10 runs on UEFI so older machines used to run UEFI on MBR.
Third a reliable way to convert MBR to GPT is by using a tool called AOMEI partition assistant.
Software for cloning MBR type of disks is mostly free but the same software will require you to buy a license to clone GPT disk
I just recently converted an MBR to GPT and it wasn't that hard (I converted my whole disk including the partition C: only on CMD) The method is easy but the requirements are easier:
1. Open CMD as admin:
2. Type diskpart
3.list disk
If there are more than 3 partitions delete one (like the recovery partition)
3.1 type "sel vol (whichever u want to delete)
3.2 type in "delete partition"
⚠️⚠️⚠️Be careful to not delete the C:/ partition⚠️⚠️⚠️
4. Type exit
5. Type"Reagent /disable"
6.type mbr2gpt /validate /disk: (any number u want) /AllowafullOS
7.(if says compatible or smth like that) then type mbr2gpt /convert /AllowafullOS
8. Done... Now restart your PC for some reason and check on disk manager if it says GPT or "GUID Partition Table"
Excellent video. Thank you.
yay! more vids like this please!!! I am not shocked at all that you are so knowledgeable! We have a SENIOR systems engineer at our company who is only 26 but has been in that position for 3 years! I am never shocked by a young tech guru. I am usually shocked when people who are old know things lol
MBR to GPT without data loss works with EaseUs Partition Master Prof Edition. Some time ago this was free, but now you need a license for about $40....
I converted my drive into GPT, works fine for daily use. I'm using minitool partition software
GPT then. 5 sec answer.
Here's the gist of the answer to my question. I bought a 4tb ssd drive and the only way I can use full capacity is to plug it in as an external drive to my laptop. I can't make use of its speed at bootup which is why I got it in the first place. I only found out about the connection to uefi after I already did 2x9hour os migrations. You ask why I didn't do my research before I purchased an ssd drive? I've got like four >4tb external drives already hooked up to my laptop. Tech left me in the dust while I was doing other things.
Thank you, was very short and informative video and helped me to make a quick decision which partition table to use.
i ran into a issue with my server installation on a 12TB RIAD and windows would petition it weirdly .. and id only end up with 2TB lol .. took me 3 weeks to figure out why .. GPT solved everything
You can convert to gpt when Installing windows in master drive. Open cms type convert gpt. That's it
This is very informative for me thank you, and when you want to convert you can use diskpart or aomei.
👍just what i needed
Thanks exactly what I was looking for. FYI Windows Disk Mgr has an option to convert the drive.
Your right skynet does offer great convenience services
Thank you so much dude. Somebody threw away a Broken PS4 and I salvaged the Hardrive!
Straight to the facts! Thanks :D GPT is the way, this video explains it all.
Good Explanation - Thanks
Wow dude you’re blowing up!
😒👍 thank u broh, still on 7 forever but im upgrading all my hard drives
OK, so get a new drive, Boot Bios to UEFI, install windows to need drive.
Done.
Thanks M8te. I'll just back up the document and app data on my old drive later.
Boot from a pendrive or something, use diskpart in cmd to do it, look it up, it's super easy
Awesome video!
I came here looking to see if I can put GPTJ on a Raspberry Pi, but this taught me stuff I didn't know I never knew, and I needed to know this.
Thank you!
Found the playlist, and added it to my playlists.
I hope to build a PC this year, and will definitely check this series out first! (Unless someone else builds it for me, or if I forget)
good video with clear guidance, well done Andrew!
Use EaseUS Partition Master to Convert MBR to GPT without losing data
I got a computer from dell, and they had it set to Legacy boot. I found a program called (AOMEI Partition Assistant). It converted my hard drive from MBR to GTP perfectly.
Thanks for the informative video, dude bro'. Straight to the point, only the essential info. Keep the good work (y)
This was the best explanation I've heard. I learned a lot!
This is exactly the Big Nerd Energy I was hoping for :D
Cool , . . appreciate the info. Many thanks.
I learned something new today. Thank you so Andrew.
No clickbait, no exaggeration.
you my dude have got a new sub. i just built my own pc and this has helped me a lot. keep up the great content.
That's awesome! Thanks
Thanks for this info :)
If you have 3tb correct, you will have 2tb and a 1tb partition, doesn't render the volume useless
This is a really good explanation, this helped me install a 2tb in my new pc build!
So how to convert a MBR drive to GPT.
There's 2 ways, the hard way is to get stuck in a boot loop and somehow use the command line to do it, but I've forgotten and I don't want any1 to go thru the same horrible experience as I did.
Jokes aside. This method will erase your data so back it up. Also, DON'T DO THIS TO YOUR C drive (where your windows is installed). If you want to make your C drive GPT, you'll have to re-install windows.
Firstly, you have to unmount the drive you wanna convert. This means you have to boot of an external usb or hdd (or even another hdd in your computer) with a different copy of windows/linux (pop os works for me)
2. After booting of the usb drive, you go to the drive you wanna convert, and format the drive and wipe all data (this is why you need to backup everything).
3. Change the partition table to gpt.
Thank you but how do I covert GPT back to MBR?
loved the thumbnail!
Thanks bro u made it super clear for me👍
using diskpart you can easyly convert mbr drives to gpt.
You just helped me a bunch, thank you!
tnx buddy
big thumbs upppppp
There is no hardware change. Only data is partitioned in a different way. Then why do you need to buy a new drive? Just backup all the data and convert it to GPT after removing the existing partitions.
awesome tutorial....
Fantastic job explaining. Thank you very much, George.
Thanks man subscribed I honestly think you should do more of these you lay out the info simple
Can i access files if i boot from OS in Gpt Ssd and files stored in Mbr HDD?-
Thanks for your answer at *3:11*
I have booted successfully with GPT ssd (windows 10 pro) + MBR HDD (personal files) , no issues.
Boot time on my pc : 9seconds.
You are good in explaniontin and make things easy :).
Thank you Mr.Andrew>
You gained a new subscriber. Thanks for explain everything
Awesome. Thanks for clearing my doubts
Awesome video it made me a great lesson
i admit I had doubts... but the video delivered
Great video, very helpful. My last doubt is if the bootable flash drive should be in fat32 or ntfs, I've seen some conflicting answers online of people saying ntfs won't boot uefi, is that true? Cheers
Use EaseUS Partition Master mate! u wont loose the data converting from mbr to gpt
I just bought an SSD and considering should I just clone windows OS on WD hard drive to my new SSD, or should I just reinstall windows 10 to my new SSD. I don't wanna lose any files on my old drive.
I would recommend installing windows on the ssd and using the other as a secondary
Thank you man! I hope to see more videos from you :)
Omg bro, what a great answer to my questions... subscribed
Amazing video dude!!
It is highly informative