(People who know more about it than I do said that it looked like an OEM setup and the prior owner did not repartition/delete partitions before installing a clean copy of Windows 10.)
I deleted all partitions
I re-installed Windows 7
I upgraded it to Windows 10
I went to back it up uzing Clonezilla.
I got the following warning/error:
"This disk contains mismatched GPT and MBR partition: /dev/sda.It will confuse Clonezilla and might make the saved image useless or fail to clone the disk.You can use gdisk or sgdisk to fix the issue..."
It then went on to provide the syntax for each of those utilities.
My question is: how do I know which partition table to keep?
This depends on the Windows 10 you have. It might boot via legacy mode (msdos) or GPT format. Normally it's set in the BIOS., so you can enter BIOS to check that.
Another method is to boot into win10 to find that.
On GNU/Linux, you might be able to run "parted -s /dev/sda print" to find the layout of the partition table. Based on that, you might be able to judge that.
Steven
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Hello all.
(People who know more about it than I do said that it looked like an OEM setup and the prior owner did not repartition/delete partitions before installing a clean copy of Windows 10.)
I got the following warning/error:
It then went on to provide the syntax for each of those utilities.
My question is: how do I know which partition table to keep?
Last edit: Doug Works 2020-06-10
This depends on the Windows 10 you have. It might boot via legacy mode (msdos) or GPT format. Normally it's set in the BIOS., so you can enter BIOS to check that.
Another method is to boot into win10 to find that.
On GNU/Linux, you might be able to run "parted -s /dev/sda print" to find the layout of the partition table. Based on that, you might be able to judge that.
Steven