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On Saturday, 28 March 2020 10:43:50 GMT Michael wrote: |
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> On Saturday, 28 March 2020 06:19:56 GMT tuxic@××××××.de wrote: |
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> > Since there is A LOT of stuff to read about UEFI, MTBR and hybrid |
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> > systems I want to sort out, what I need to read in advance. |
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> What is "MTBR"? |
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> Mean Time Between Repair? :-/ |
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Motor Torpedo Boat, to those old enough to remember. :) |
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> What I would consider reasonable in the year of 2020 is to use GPT, which is |
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> a more versatile and useful structure for partitioning disks, without the |
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> restrictions and deficiencies of MBR tables. On the other hand if you have |
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> a really old disk which you are not planning to repartition, I would |
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> consider it reasonable to leave it alone with its existing MBR table and |
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> get on with more important/interesting tasks. |
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The BIOS of any machine old enough to be using FAT-style MBR cannot cope with |
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anything newer, so if you have one, you're stuck with it. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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