GPT partitions can hold 18 exabytes compared to 2.2TB for the MBR. GPT supports a "protective" MBR so that third-party MBR utilities can identify the disk correctly, as well as a "legacy" MBR if ...

The easiest way to check if a Disk uses GPT or MBR Partition would be to do it from the Disk Management window. If you are familiar with Windows Command-line interpreter then you can use either ...