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Is there any reason to use an MBR versus GUID partition on a WD20EARS 2 TB advanced format drive? The drive will most likely be connected to a Windows 7 x64 machine and a Windows Home Server v1 ...

2] Convert drive to GPT MBR (Master Boot Record) and GPT (GUID Partition Table) are two different ways of storing the partitioning information on a drive.

Check the "Partition style." A bootable USB drive should have either a Master Boot Record (MBR) or GUID Partition Table (GPT) partition style. Using Command Prompt ...

A GPT disk necessarily has an MBR as well, and while the GPT spec says that the MBR should indicate that the disk has one big partition of a type that a non-GPT-aware OS won't recognize ("nothing ...