MBR or GPT for hard drive and ssd

[cremay]

which one do I choose?

[[AUT] Rurdo]

Why do you even ask? What are you doing?
Normally, this isnt a thing a normal user has to worry about.

Btw, if you are installing an OS, detach the HDD until the SSD bootet into windows.
Because Windows will have difficulties to evaluate which Drive to use, and in most cases it will write the MBR to the HDD instead of SSD if both are attached, and that will slow your Boottime.

[cremay]

Originally posted by AUT Rurdo:

Why do you even ask? What are you doing?
Normally, this isnt a thing a normal user has to worry about.

Btw, if you are installing an OS, detach the HDD until the SSD bootet into windows.
Because Windows will have difficulties to evaluate which Drive to use, and in most cases it will write the MBR to the HDD instead of SSD if both are attached, and that will slow your Boottime.

I have 3 storages, 2x ssd and 1x hdd

the "c" drive is my 1st ssd

but my problem is that my other 2 storages arent shown, so I have to install it to use it

[[AUT] Rurdo]

You dont have to install anything else.

Dont write any more MBRs to any Drives. That will cause some serious troubles.
There is, everytime, only 1 MBR or GPT in every PC build.
The MBR (Master Boot Record) is needed for booting into OS. If you would have 2 OS' installed, this is the place where all infos are saved, also its the screen where you can decide which one to boot.

You dont need a second MBR.

Do you have Win10 or something older?

[cremay]

Originally posted by AUT Rurdo:

You dont have to install anything else.

Dont write any more MBRs to any Drives. That will cause some serious troubles.
There is, everytime, only 1 MBR or GPT in every PC build.
The MBR (Master Boot Record) is needed for booting into OS. If you would have 2 OS' installed, this is the place where all infos are saved, also its the screen where you can decide which one to boot.

You dont need a second MBR.

Do you have Win10 or something older?

I have win 10.

so do I choose GPT for my hdd and 2nd ssd?

[[AUT] Rurdo]

Im sorry i forgot to explain that.

GPT is nothing else than MBR. Ist just a newer thing you need for really big drives.
If your windows is installed completely you dont have to worry about your MBR/GPT.
Thats really not for User interference.

http://www.disk-partition.com/windows-10/format-hard-drive-windows-10-0528.html

Read this first section. Everything about the AOMEI crap you dont need. just the thing above.
Then you can see and use your other drives.

[cremay]

I dont get it?

so what do I do to use my 2tb hdd and 480gb ssd?

[[AUT] Rurdo]

Disk Management

Disk Management in Windows 10 is a built-in tool which enables you to format/create/delete/extend/shrink partition without rebooting system. If you want to use this tool to format hard drive, you should open Disk Management by one of the following ways at first.

Right click This PC>Manage>Disk Management
Click start menu and then type Disk Management to search
Click start menu and type cmd to open command line and then input compmgmt.msc and then click Enter
Press “windows + R” to open the command line and then enter “diskmgmt.msc” to launch Disk Management

Step1: After open Disk Management, right click the partition you need to format (partition D) and then chooseFormat.

Step2:In the pop-up window, you can set file system and cluster size and then clickOK.

With Disk Management in Windows 10, only the partition whose size is smaller than 32GB can be formatted from NTFS to FAT32. But if your partition is larger than 32GB and you hope to format from NTFS to FAT32, how can you do?

[cremay]

it doesnt have a specific letter assigned to it?

I cant press the format thing, its grayed out

[vadim]

Originally posted by ➹ CreaMy (TRADING):

I dont get it?

so what do I do to use my 2tb hdd and 480gb ssd?

As a rule of a thumb: use GPT for drives with more than 2^32 logical blocks (i.e. > 2.2 TB) and MBR otherwise. Every drive have eitther MBR or GPT if it partitioned (there are other partitioning schemes as well, but you will never use them). Don't listen anybody who will tell you that you don't need MBR on second drive, that is not true.

[pasa]

As Varim says. GPT is the new thing, but the worls is just catching up. MBR is currently understood by everything. And it handles everything fine up to ~2T.

GPT everywhere is viable strategy if you have support and are positive you will not move drives around, ever.

[Spanky]

Originally posted by ➹ CreaMy (TRADING):

which one do I choose?

First of all, a master boot record is for The windows os and a gpt is not.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Win10 will force GPT for the OS drive; but that is as far as GPT needs to go.
For other drives simply use NTFS.
Unless it is a bootable flash/external drive, that usually will need to be FAT32

[cremay]

Originally posted by Bad-Motha:

Win10 will force GPT for the OS drive; but that is as far as GPT needs to go.
For other drives simply use NTFS.
Unless it is a bootable flash/external drive, that usually will need to be FAT32

NTFS isnt an option?

[cremay]

Originally posted by SquirrlyNuts:

Originally posted by ➹ CreaMy (TRADING):

which one do I choose?

First of all, a master boot record is for The windows os and a gpt is not.

so do I choose gpt?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I really dont get your thread at all; Install Win10 fresh with formatting the SSD; the end result will be the SSD will get formatted using GPT; bravo, you're done. There is nothing to select, you're never manually formatting the SSD, Win10 does that for you.

Secondary Drives you format later, you select NTFS