I'm just about to carry out a Macruim Reflect cloning operation to move from an old 80gb ssd to a lovely new 250gb one. My OS is Win7 64.
Before I go any further I need to initialise the disk and the question of whether to use GPT or MBR needs to be answered. My understanding of GPT is that it's the newer method that allows disk sizes above 2tb, it's not backward compatible with pre win7, and that's pretty much it..
So my question is, which method should I use to initialise the new disk in readiness for the cloning? And also would my old disk's initialisation method have any bearing on the matter too? Say if my current drive is MBR and I try to clone it to a GBT disk?
I've tried to find out what method was used but my attempts so far have failed.
I've been into disk management and chosen properties/volumes but none have showed me what initialisation method was used on my original disk. Let's face it, it's probably MBR but I can't be 100% sure.
Any help much appreciated.
Before I go any further I need to initialise the disk and the question of whether to use GPT or MBR needs to be answered. My understanding of GPT is that it's the newer method that allows disk sizes above 2tb, it's not backward compatible with pre win7, and that's pretty much it..
So my question is, which method should I use to initialise the new disk in readiness for the cloning? And also would my old disk's initialisation method have any bearing on the matter too? Say if my current drive is MBR and I try to clone it to a GBT disk?
I've tried to find out what method was used but my attempts so far have failed.
I've been into disk management and chosen properties/volumes but none have showed me what initialisation method was used on my original disk. Let's face it, it's probably MBR but I can't be 100% sure.Any help much appreciated.
