![]() Usually, 2012+ computers that came with Windows 8 would have a UEFI firmware (some OEMs released Windows 7 releases alongside those, so make sure yours has UEFI), and this is a newly spread firmware type (that was in development since the 2000s) and was already deployed on Apple computers ever since the intel switch (but their own heavily modified firmware, it's called EFI and not UEFI for the lack of universality). If your computer (prebuilt) came with Windows 8 (2012 and later), then your disk is probably partitioned as GPT. ![]() Ever since UEFI, the disk default partition map format is GPT (GUID Partition Table), which added support for more than 2TB of disk size and more than 4 partitions that was the limit of MBR while still keeping a backward compatibility with MBR for legacy systems.
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