Advanced Format Drive ?

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Chris Whitehouse wrote:

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>> In message<alpine.BSF.2.00.1211142250370.58597 at wonkity.com>,
>> 
>>> In general, you create a "partition scheme" first.  This can be MBR,
>>> GPT, or others.  (But use GPT.)
>
> Unless you want to dual boot with WinXP in which case use MBR still?

Yes.  The same for Vista or Windows 7, mostly.  AFAIK, Windows 7 64-bit 
on a UEFI system is the only Windows that will boot from GPT.

As I've said before, consider using VMs rather than dual booting.