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Now with a little bit of searching I've found a Windows based tool that claims it can recover a GUID partition table called Partition Guru Professional Edition (the free version does not handle ...

Doing so causes the GPT partition table to overwrite the data on the destination drive. To resolve this issue, the user needs to convert the GUID Partition Table disk to MBR.

Short version: (as topic)Longer, more rambling version:So I just installed Vista x64 on my home system over the weekend and was pleasantly surprised to find that, when initializing a new hard ...

However, there's an asymmetry here. Although a PPC machine cannot boot up from a GUID-partitioned disk, an Intel machine can boot up from an Apple partition scheme disk.

Apple supports multiple styles of formatting, though its preferred one for Macs is called GUID Partition Table. (GUID refers to a globally unique identifying code that’s part of the formatting ...

Sometimes installing OS X may result in odd behavior if the partition scheme on the drive is not set up properly. If you are experiencing problems, a simple repartition during setup may be an easy ...

(I always choose GUID partition table as that’s the format that works with today’s Intel-based Macs.) Now, click on Apply to partition the drive with the understanding that doing so will erase ...