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GParted errors on MBR Disk, Claims it's GPT. (It's mistaken, but why?)

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Mar 15, 20269293 views
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It's very tempting for me to go on a rant here about GParted and Linux, but I'll do my best to avoid it. :) Question: Why does GParted claim that my disk is corrupted and GPT, whereas the Disk Utility thinks everything is fine? My only partition on the disk (NTFS) has Windows 7 x64 on it, and has a…

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Fix for: GParted errors on MBR Disk, Claims it's GPT. (It's mistaken, but why?)

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Chances are the disk used to be a GUID Partition Table (GPT) disk. Such disks have partitioning data from sectors 0-33 (typically) and also in the last 33 sectors of the disk. If a GPT disk is repartitioned by a GPT-unaware utility, that utility is …

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