another gpt vs mbr (sanity) check

Mon Mar 8 17:55:42 UTC 2010

On Mar 8, 2010, at 9:48 AM, Pete French wrote:

>> 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 ?

Ask Microsoft. So far I've only seen violations to the spec. At
least Apple kept to the spirit of it...

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Marcel Moolenaar
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