Help installing new harddrive

ShaolinDreams · 9 Mar 2011 at 13:10

Hi people..

Just bought a 2TB Samsung internal harddrive from OcUk. It's going to be used just for free space backup. I'm now just in the initialising disk option in Disk Manager (Windows7) and it's asking me the following, "Use the following partition style for the selected disks... MBR master boot record or GPT GUID partition Table" .... Which one do i choose? Thanks.

Its been a while since i installed a harddrive

paradisiac · 9 Mar 2011 at 13:14

GPT if its not going to be bootable.

ShaolinDreams · 9 Mar 2011 at 13:26

paradisiac said:
GPT if its not going to be bootable.

Thanks mate thats what i was thinking.. just had to make sure

biuro74 · 9 Mar 2011 at 14:51

ShaolinDreams said:
Thanks mate thats what i was thinking.. just had to make sure

I'd rather say there's no difference, if drive is 2 TB and smaller, and if it's not bootable. 4 primary partitions for spare drive is enough for most of users anyway, so it's not a point to make any difference in such case.