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    MBR allows creation of up to four primary partitions and supports disks up to 2TB in size. It works with all versions of Windows and other operating systems. GPT allows creation of up to 128 primary partitions and supports much larger disks up to 18EB. It works with newer versions of Windows, Linux, and Mac OS but requires UEFI firmware and some older systems cannot read or write to GPT disks. GPT also includes security features like a checksum to detect errors in the partition table.

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    MBR allows creation of up to four primary partitions and supports disks up to 2TB in size. It works with all versions of Windows and other operating systems. GPT allows creation of up to 128 primary partitions and supports much larger disks up to 18EB. It works with newer versions of Windows, Linux, and Mac OS but requires UEFI firmware and some older systems cannot read or write to GPT disks. GPT also includes security features like a checksum to detect errors in the partition table.

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    MBR VS GPT

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    MBR allows creation of up to four primary partitions and supports disks up to 2TB in size. It works with all versions of Windows and other operating systems. GPT allows creation of up to 128 primary partitions and supports much larger disks up to 18EB. It works with newer versions of Windows, Linux, and Mac OS but requires UEFI firmware and some older systems cannot read or write to GPT disks. GPT also includes security features like a checksum to detect errors in the partition table.

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    NAVNEET SINGH DODIYA C0694900

    MBR(Master Boot Record) and GPT(GUID Partition Table)

    Hierarchy of disks, partitions, volumes-

    Partition Number-
    MBR: It contains a 64-byte partition table which is made up of four partition table entries and each one needs 16 bytes. Therefore, for a MBR disk,
    you are allowed to create four primary partitions. In order to create more partitions, it is OK to change the fourth partition as extended partition,
    and then many logical drives can be created.
    GPT: For a GPT disk, the partition table header defines the usable blocks on the disk and the number & size of the partition entries that make up
    the partition table. EFI requires that the partition table should be a minimum of 16,384 bytes reserved, namely there are 128 partition entries and
    each is 128 bytes. In brief, you can create up to 128 primary partitions on a GPT disk.

    Disk Size-
    MBR: For a hard drive of which sector is 512 bytes, the partition table of MBR limits the maximum addressable storage space to 2TB. If your
    disk is larger than 2TB, you will find the rest disk space becomes "unallocated" in Disk Management.
    GPT: GPT disk supports up to 18EB in capacity

    Security-
    With the check sum, the firmware, boot loader or operating system on boot can verify whether there is something wrong with the partition table.
    Once errors are detected on primary GPT, it is allowed to recover the whole partition table from the backup GUID partition header but not MBR.

    OS Support-
    MBR: MBR supports all versions of all OS.
    GPT: 1. Windows Vista 32-bit and XP 32-bit, and the early operating systems including Windows 2000, Windows MS-DOS/NT, Windows 95/98
    cant support reading, writing and booting from GPT disk.
    2. In Windows XP 64-bit, GPT disk can be used for data storage instead of system installation.
    3. All versions of Windows Vista/XP/7/8/8.1/10, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012/2016 can use GPT disk to save data to. But only 64-bit
    editions on UEFI-based systems can be used as system disks.
    4. Linux and Mac OS X10.6+ support GPT disk for data storage and OS boot requires UEFI BIOS.

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