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What are the differences between MBR vs GPT vs any other partition scheme?

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Can anyone tell me what the main differences between i.e. MBR vs GPT or any other partition scheme are? Why would one choose one over the other? I am not an expert but from new release of Mac OS X which includes a feature called Time Machine, which I find highly useful. GPT is the requirement for M…

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Differences between MS-DOS style Master Boot Record (MBR), the Apple Partition Map (APM), and the UEFI-style GUID Partition Table (GPT) are such: Disk size MBR and APM limit the usable disk size to 2 TiB (a partition can neither start nor end beyond…

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