another gpt vs mbr (sanity) check

[Pete French]

> To clarify: the protective MBR is there only to protect the GPT
> disk from tools that do not understand the GPT. Any GPT-aware
> tool will treat the disk as a GPT disk. Consequently: the MBR
> is inferior to the GPT...

The queston is then, why isn't Windows treating it as GPT ? It's
all very nice in theory, but if the practical upshot is that
we get flash media which will read perfectly well in all operating
systems except for BSD then thats not a good result, even if it
is theoretically correct. Which is the situation the original poster
appeared to have.

-pete.