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How to manually partition Linux and when you should

If you manually partition your Linux PC, you're setting up all the necessary partitions for your system and allocating disk ...
PC World

How to Fix GPT Protective Partition Without Losing Data

What is the GPT protective partition? Why is my disk showing as GPT protective partition in Disk Management? How to fix a GPT protective partition without losing data and regain access to it? In this ...
Ars Technica

Ubuntu 18.04.1 server installer can't see GPT partitions but fdisk can

Can anyone shed some light on whythe Ubuntu 18.04.1 installer can't see any partitions on the NVMe disc (so I can't add a new partition after the existing ones) but if I hit ctrl-alt-F2 to get to ...
Ars Technica

Windows 7 Install keeps reverting HD from GPT to MBR

I am building a fresh system, and trying to install Windows 7 on a 3tb SATA drive. The board is an Asus P8Z77-V. The problem is that whenever I install windows, it converts the drive back to MBR and I ...
ZDNet

The never-ending saga of EFI Boot and GPT partitioning

My previous post on Linux Mint Debian Edition 201303 has obviously uncovered a lot of confusion about EFI booting and GPT partition tables. I hope that I can explain it all a bit more, with a couple ...