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Convert Basic Disk to Dynamic Disk in Windows 8/7 This post compares Basic Disk and Dynamic Disk and shows how to convert basic disk to dynamic disk and dynamic disk to basic disk, using Disk Management and CMD /  diskpart ,  without losing the data in Windows 8. Basic Disk and Dynamic Disk There are two types of computer hard disks: Basic disks and Dynamic disks. Basic disks are the commonly used storage media with Windows. They contain partitions like Primary partitions and Logical drives which are typically formatted with a file system. Dynamic disks offer the ability to create fault-tolerant volumes that may even span multiple disks – which Basic disks cannot. Most home personal computers are configured using Basic disks, however IT professionals usually prefer to use Dynamic disks, as they offer more functionality and increased reliability and performance. While Home editions of Windows support Basic Disks, Enterprise/Pro/Ultimate versions of Windows oper...

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Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style If while  installing Windows 10  on your computer, you receive  Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style  message, maybe something here will be able to help you. When you receive this message, you are unable to select any drive and proceed further with the setup, by clicking Next. Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style MBR and  GPT  are two formats of hard disk. MBR is the abbreviation of master bootable record, whereas GPT is abbreviation of GUID partition table. In order to boot Windows from GPT, the motherboard of the device should support UEFI, else, it is better to use MBR to boot from. When installing Windows on UEFI-based PCs using Windows Setup, your hard drive partition style must be set up to support either UEFI mode or legacy BIOS-compatibility m...

How to Convert MBR to GPT without Data Loss? Why Convert MBR to GPT? Nowadays, many Windows users have come up with the question of "how to convert MBR to GPT without data loss". Also, in many technical blogs and forums, this question can be heard frequently as well. Why do they want to convert MBR to GPT? Let's see the  difference between MBR and GPT  as follows. The MBR hard disk can only support 2TB hard disk at most, but GPT can support 256TB. The users can only create four primary partitions or three primary partitions and one extended partition at most. The GPT can support 128 primary partitions at most. Some booting main boards can not support GPT as their system drive, such as MAC. Some Windows operating systems can not work with GPT hard disk, such as Windows 2000, XP, Windows 2003 32bit. How to Convert MBR to GPT without Data Loss? Diskpart The Diskpart Command can achieve the goal by the following steps. Step 1:  click "Start...