RELATED: How to "Clean" a Flash Drive, SD Card, or Internal Drive to Fix Partition and Capacity Problems You can then move the data you backed up back onto the new partitions, if you like. Just right-click inside the unallocated space and create one or more new partitions. When all the partitions are removed from the disk, you can right-click the disk in Disk Management and select “Convert to GPT Disk” or “Convert to MBR Disk.” This option will only be available once all partitions have been wiped.Īfter you do this, you can create one or more partitions on the disk from the Disk Management window. Repeat this process for each partition on that disk. Right-click any partitions on the drive and select “Delete Volume” or “Delete Partition” to remove them. To convert a disk to a different partition scheme, locate the disk in Disk Management. Remember, back up any data on the disk before continuing! This will wipe all data on the disk you choose to convert! It may take a little longer than using a conversion feature, but this is the officially supported way and you’re guaranteed you won’t run into any partition problems or data loss.
We recommend just backing up the drive, wiping the data, and moving any necessary data back over.
However, these aren’t officially supported by Microsoft, and you’d want to back up your data before running such programs anyway in case you lose anything. Some third-party partition management programs promise they can convert MBR to GPT and GPT to MBR without any data loss. Technically, this isn’t the only way to convert between disks.
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