On May 10, 2014, at 5:50 PM, benfell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Wolfgang S. Rupprecht writes: >> >> This is true. My laptop's MS Windows XP doesn't seem to like GPT. Not >> sure about anything more recent. I only use the XP partition to load >> updated firmware on consumer devices, so I'm not about to spend money to >> upgrade an OS I use perhaps once a year. > > My experience would be with Windows 7, which absolutely has to install on GPT. Not exactly correct. Windows Vista/7/8 will require GPT on UEFI computers, and will require MBR on BIOS computers. And this requirement is only for boot drives. Data drives can use GPT (or MBR) regardless of the firmware type. Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
