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I currently have an Acer Laptop running Windows 10.
My system drive currently has a GUID Partition Table (GPT) but I want to convert it to MBR Partition Table. Doing this wont be a problem as I found plenty of tutorials.
I am completely new in this area and have no idea what will change if i do this. Will I break something on my computer?
The reason I want to do this is because I wish to use Veracrypt to encrypt the entire system partition, rather then encrypting individual containers and veracrypt only supports MBR.
The Questions:
What are the advantages/disadvantages of doing such modifications
Is there a likelihood something will break? What should I look for
Is there anything else I need to be aware of?
Thanks
Also: MBR does support hard drives greater than 2TB. (approx) – cybernard – 2017-08-26T14:22:05.100
Well, yes and no. The 2TiB limit is really 2^32 * (sector size) bytes, so it goes up if the sector size goes up, as is the case for a small number of internal disks and many more external (USB) disks. It's also possible to start a 2TiB partition at just under the 2TiB limit, thus extending the capacity addressable by MBR to just under 4TiB; but this doesn't work in all OSes and is not supported by all utilities, so it's a rather risky "hack," not a dependable MBR feature. See this page of mine for more on these topics.
– Rod Smith – 2017-08-28T15:54:56.820