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Special Forums Hardware Boot Loaders GPT/Protective MBR problem... Post 302470525 by fpmurphy on Wednesday 10th of November 2010 10:10:05 AM
Old 11-10-2010
Yes, that is the best plan. Glad you had a backup. It is my opinion that utilities such as gdisk should not attempt to automatically convert from MBR to GPT and visa versa. Too many edge cases where things can go wrong.

Last edited by fpmurphy; 11-10-2010 at 11:15 AM..
 

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