Re: Considering purchase off SSD! Follow up
Got my new SSD. Have some additional questions. My old disk is MBR partitioned. I want to reserve only a part of the disk for my Win7 installation and in order to do that I must initialise the disk (This is in Windows7). A question comes up about using MBR or GPT (GUID Partition Table) I know I can just go ahead and use MBR but I would like to ask if GPT would be beneficial. Is it possible to use GUID when one has a dual boot system? I presume that FreeBSD can handle GPT but I'm unsure! Will someone enlighten me? Thanks :-) /Leslie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Considering purchase off SSD! Follow up
Leslie Jensen skrev 2012-10-09 17:46: Got my new SSD. Have some additional questions. My old disk is MBR partitioned. I want to reserve only a part of the disk for my Win7 installation and in order to do that I must initialise the disk (This is in Windows7). A question comes up about using MBR or GPT (GUID Partition Table) I know I can just go ahead and use MBR but I would like to ask if GPT would be beneficial. Is it possible to use GUID when one has a dual boot system? I presume that FreeBSD can handle GPT but I'm unsure! Will someone enlighten me? Thanks :-) /Leslie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Found the answer! Sorry for the noice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Considering purchase off SSD! Follow up
On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote: Got my new SSD. Have some additional questions. My old disk is MBR partitioned. I want to reserve only a part of the disk for my Win7 installation and in order to do that I must initialise the disk (This is in Windows7). A question comes up about using MBR or GPT (GUID Partition Table) I know I can just go ahead and use MBR but I would like to ask if GPT would be beneficial. Is it possible to use GUID when one has a dual boot system? I presume that FreeBSD can handle GPT but I'm unsure! Yes, FreeBSD can handle it. As usual, Windows is the problem. From what I've read, only Windows 7 64-bit supports GPT, and then only with UEFI. So it's very likely that MBR is the only practical choice. Another trick is that Windows generally only has drivers for what was present when it was installed. So switching the BIOS to AHCI for better performance can result in Windows not booting. It is possible to locate the Windows drivers and install them. Otherwise, FreeBSD will work fine without AHCI, disk IO will be just a bit slower. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Considering purchase off SSD! Follow up
On Tue, 9 Oct 2012 11:23:36 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block articulated: On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote: Got my new SSD. Have some additional questions. My old disk is MBR partitioned. I want to reserve only a part of the disk for my Win7 installation and in order to do that I must initialise the disk (This is in Windows7). A question comes up about using MBR or GPT (GUID Partition Table) I know I can just go ahead and use MBR but I would like to ask if GPT would be beneficial. Is it possible to use GUID when one has a dual boot system? I presume that FreeBSD can handle GPT but I'm unsure! Yes, FreeBSD can handle it. As usual, Windows is the problem. From what I've read, only Windows 7 64-bit supports GPT, and then only with UEFI. So it's very likely that MBR is the only practical choice. Another trick is that Windows generally only has drivers for what was present when it was installed. So switching the BIOS to AHCI for better performance can result in Windows not booting. It is possible to locate the Windows drivers and install them. Otherwise, FreeBSD will work fine without AHCI, disk IO will be just a bit slower. A somewhat more concise discussion of Windows 7 and GPT can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/gg463525.aspx Information on ACHI is available at: http://www.everything-microsoft.com/2010/05/25/how-to-enable-ahci-in-windows-7/ http://www.ithinkdiff.com/how-to-enable-ahci-in-windows-7-rc-after-installation/ -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
