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Is there a way to know if my crashed hard drive is GPT or MBR ?

Posted: 22 Jan 2019, 14:24
by pkz24
Hello,

My hard drive with windows 10 installed, does not start anymore and under another PC, it appears as unlocated in disc manager.

The software "discgenius" has find all my partitions:

1- system reserved (0)

2- primary (1) which contains extended partition logical (5) (damaged) but I can access and copy files from

3- primary (3)

4- Logical Disk (4)

but when I want to save the partition table, it asks me if the disk is MBR or GUID ????

As I don't remember, I thought about the recovery folder in the primary (1) partition.

is there a way to know if my disc is GUID or MBR from this folder ?

thank you

Re: Is there a way to know if my crashed hard drive is GPT or MBR ?

Posted: 22 Jan 2019, 17:05
by cgrenier
If logical partitions are listed, it means that PC Intel/MBR is used.

Re: Is there a way to know if my crashed hard drive is GPT or MBR ?

Posted: 23 Jan 2019, 12:35
by pkz24
Thank you for the response.

I try the MBR partition table, But I receive the message :
"Can not convert the partition table to MBR style.(200000148) More than 4 primary partitions ??
I try testdisc but it took too long time and the partitions are shown as Ms DATA !!!!!