In most cases, it's not necessary to know what type of partition scheme your hard drive uses. However, if you're just building a new PC, you might be asked to choose between MBR and GPT partitions. Additionally, some programs require you to specify the partition scheme before beginning the installation process. 🖥️

If you are wondering what the difference is between the two, GPT is a modern partition scheme that is required to boot the Windows operating system in UEFIOn the other hand, MBR is required to boot older versions of Windows in BIOS mode. If you want to install the latest Windows 10, you'll likely need to use the GPT partition scheme. 🚀

How to Check if a Hard Drive is GPT or MBR in Windows

Knowing your disk's partition scheme before preparing a bootable USB drive is essential to ensure an error-free Windows 10 installation. Therefore, it's always good to know whether a disk uses GPT or MBR on a Windows PC. 📂

1. Through Disk Management

You can use the Disk Management tool built into Windows 10 to determine whether a disk is GPT or MBR. Follow the simple steps below.

1. First, right-click the Start button and select Disk Management.

2. This will open the Disk Management tool.

3. Right-click on the disk whose partition scheme you want to know and select Properties.

4. In the next window, select the tab Volumes.

5. Now check the partition style. The section of partition style It will tell you what partition style was used on the disk.

2. Using the Command Prompt

The method of Command Prompt It may not be the easiest, but it's still quite effective. Follow the simple steps below to check if a disk uses the GPT or MBR partition style.

2. First, click Search in Windows and type CMD. Right-click on CMD and select Run as administrator.

2. In the Command Prompt window, enter disk part and press the Enter key.

3. Then, enter list disk at the Command Prompt and press Enter.

4. If a disk is GPT, it will have a asterisk(*) in the GPT column. If the asterisk character is missing in the GPT column, it is an MBR disk.

3. Using Powershell

Like Command Prompt, you can use Windows PowerShell to determine whether your hard drive uses a GPT or MBR partition style. 💻

1. First, search for Powershell in Windows Search. Now, right-click on Powershell and select Run as Administrator.

2. In the Powershell window, I typed Get-Disk and press the Enter key.

3. Now, look at the column of Partition StyleThis column indicates whether a hard drive uses a GPT or MBR scheme.

How to Convert MBR to GPT in Windows

If you receive errors If you encounter 'Windows cannot be installed to this disk' while installing Windows 10/11 from scratch, you will need to convert the MBR disk to GPT.

We will share a guide detailed about How to convert MBR to GPT in WindowsYou can follow this guide to convert. 📖

This article is about how to check if a disk uses the style of partition GPT or MBR in Windows. I hope this helps! Don't forget to share it with your friends, too. If you have any questions, leave a comment below. 💬