Gui Partition Table explained GPT/UEFI FDISK TUTORIAL

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As hard drives get bigger....into Terabytes, [1000s Gb] the old DOS partitioning scheme MBR has become redundant as it cannot address extremely large 2Tb> partitions

Many newer PCs are shipping with something called Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware, or Gui Partition Table [GPT]

For explanations of this, and how to use GPT FDisk see the excellent tutorial by Rod Smith

http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/

see also his MBR limitation workarounds

http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/workarounds.html

and What is a GPT?

http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/whatsgpt.html

and BIOS to UEFI transformation

http://www.rodsbooks.com/bios2uefi/

Missing Partitions in GParted

http://www.rodsbooks.com/missing-parts/

and finally Fixparts

http://www.rodsbooks.com/fixparts/

There are even more embedded links for those delving deeper into this topic

Anyone using Linux or dual booting Windoze will find something useful

Thanks Rod!

Aitch