Which one should I choose between win7mbr and guid?

win7mbr and guid are two formats for hard disk partitions. Many users don’t know which one to choose when building a system. In fact, it is best to choose according to the configuration of their own computer. Let’s take a look at the detailed introduction below.

Which one to choose between win7mbr and guid:

Answer: win7: MBR partition is recommended.

Because Windows 7 does not support UEFI system installation by default, the hard disk cannot be recognized.

win8 and win10: Both modes are available, guid is recommended.

Win7mbr and guid related introduction:

0. GPT is the abbreviation of GUID partition table.

1. The installed UEFI system can only be booted through GPT disk. (The Windows installer can boot from the FAT32 partition of the MBR, but only for the installer).

2. MBR can only have 4 primary partitions, and more than one can only be made into logical partitions. GBT supports more than 100 primary partitions (the upper limit depends on the operating system).

(So when GPT with more than 4 partitions is converted losslessly to MBR, some partitions will be converted into logical partitions, or some software cannot convert.)

3. The maximum manageable capacity of MBR is 2TB, GBT is much larger than this.

4. Booting the installed system from GPT requires an EFI boot partition (ESP) in FAT32 format.

GPT disks can also have a master boot record (abbreviated as "MBR" in English), but they will not be used by UEFI to boot the system.

If it is in BIOS compatibility mode, an error will usually occur after the system boots from the MBR record of the GPT partition (because a compatible partition cannot be found).

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