In Windows Vista or newer operating systems:
# Right-click Computer in the Start Menu and then select Manage. # Select Disk Management in the left column. # Right-click the MBR drive you want to convert to GPT and then click Convert to GPT Disk. Note: If the drive contains partitions you must first delete these before converting it to GPT.
This for Windows 7... Start-> Right click on My Computer -> Manage -> Storage -> Disk Management -> Right click where is written "Disk 0" or "Disk 1". Whatever your hard drive number is. Than choose "Convert to GPT Disk".
You can Convert GPT disk to MBR disk with Windows Disk Management
1. Right click "My Computer" and choose "Manage" -> "Storage" -> "Disk Management".
Windows Disk Management
2. Delete all volumes on the GPT hard disk which you want to convert to MBR disk.
Delete all volumes
3. Right click on the hard disk 1 and choose "Convert to MBR disk". After you convert GPT disk to MBR disk, you can create partitions on the now MBR disk if you like.
OR use the software easier(with EaseUS Partition Master)
Tips:
1. You must have administrator privilege to do this in Windows.
2. Before you convert a disk, be sure to backup anything on the GPT disk that you want to convert to MBR disk. Converting the disk requires that all partitions and volumes are deleted on the disk first.
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EXT2 is a filesystem. Like FAT and NTFS for Windows, It doesn't have a boot record. It all comes down if you use MBR or GPT partition tables on the disk. The former will have what you are looking for, whereas GPT only has a "protective" one.
gpt mbr2
A single MBR-Style disk can contain a maximum of four primary partitions.
You can use a disk utility to edit bytes in the MBR directly from the disk or You can use BCDedit in Vista and Windows 7 see links
2 TB
MBR (Master Boot Record) - this is because prior to windows vista all x86 based computers used the MBR partition style only.
The Master Boot Record (MBR) is stored at the beginning of your hard drive (in the first 512 bytes.) The MBR contains information about the beginning and ending of each partition, which partition contains the operating system for booting, and other valuable information about the disk layout. Your computer will not boot up if your MBR is corrupt or missing.
In Windows Server 2008, a physical drive using MBR partition style can have up to four primary partitions and one extended partition.
The easiest method under Windows is using an application such as MBRWizard (link provided below), which can delete, create, or even repair a corrupt MBR.
The Master Boot Record (MBR) scheme has a limit of 2TB for the maximum partition size. Additionally, MBR only supports up to four primary partitions or three primary partitions and one extended partition with multiple logical partitions within it. Modern systems often opt for the newer GUID Partition Table (GPT) scheme, which does not have these limitations.