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Master Boot Record (MBR) vs. GPT: Which is Right for Your Hard Drive?

Definition of MBR & how to fix missing or corrupt MBRs A master boot record (often shortened as MBR) is a kind of boot sector ...
PC World

How to Fix GPT Protective Partition Without Losing Data

What is the GPT protective partition? Why is my disk showing as GPT protective partition in Disk Management? How to fix a GPT protective partition without losing data and regain access to it? In this ...
Ars Technica

How to clone encrypted boot disk to a new hard drive?

I recently bought a new 1 TB NVMe SSD (970 Evo Plus) to upgrade from my current 256 GB M.2 SATA SSD. The current disk is LUKS encrypted using the default options were when I originally installed ...
CNET

Another new hard disk...and an unsolved problem

Peter Glaskowsky upgrades the hard disk in his MacBook Pro, but asks for reader help in migrating the contents of his Boot Camp partition for Windows. Peter N. Glaskowsky is a computer architect in ...
CNET

How-To: Managing partitions with Disk Utility

There may be times where you've either decided to partition a drive or are finished with a partition and wish to remove it and dedicate the space to another partition. The disk management tool Disk ...
Ars Technica

Restoring data - initialized hard disk to GPT by mistake

Sorry for the troubleshooting post but I seem to have made a mess of things and would sure appreciate some help. I replaced a secondary hard drive with a new hard drive and put the old one into an ...
PC World

Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2009 Suite Backup and Partition Software

A very worthy alternative to Acronis for disk chores. Hard Disk Manager 2009 Suite is a welcome upgrade of an already capable partitioning and imaging suite from Paragon Software. The latest version ...