What are the differences between MBR vs GPT vs any other partition scheme?

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Published on 2011-08-17T20:49:44Z Indexed on 2014/06/08 15:31 UTC
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Can anyone tell me what the main differences between i.e. MBR vs GPT or any other partition scheme are? Why would one choose one over the other?


I am not an expert but from new release of Mac OS X which includes a feature called Time Machine, which I find highly useful. GPT is the requirement for Mac OS X Lion ... so on this basis I would say that GPT is more useful than MBR.

What other partition schemes are there and which one should be used in which situation?

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