Windows Server 2008 Convert MBR Disk to GPT Disk
With the gradual increase in disk capacity and reduction in price, to meet the increasing demands for data storage, most server managers have replaced the previous disk with large capacity disk or made RAID. However, during the course of utilizing disk with large capacity or RAID, tremendous server managers may have encountered such a problem that users cannot create more than four primary partitions in the disk and the disk cannot support partition larger than 2TB due to the limit of the partition amount of MBR disk and size of partition. So if users would like to create more primary partitions or manage server partition better, they need to convert MBR disk to GPT disk.
How to convert MBR disk to GPT disk for Windows Server 2008? It must be a puzzle for numerous users. In fact, the answer is not hard as expected. If users install a powerful server partition manager, it will be quite easy to convert MBR disk to GPT disk for Windows Server 2008.
How to convert MBR disk to GPT disk for Windows Server 2008 with server partition manager?
The server partition manager not only can run in Windows Server 2008 perfectly, but also owns powerful disk converting function which can help users convert MBR disk to GPT disk for Windows Server 2008 without affecting original data.
After downloading and installing the server partition manager from http://www.server-partition-manager.com/, users need to run it to enter the interface below:
The interface is the main interface of the software. Here, users can see detailed status of disk and partition, so users just need to select the disk needing to be converted. Then, users can see the function "Convert MBR Disk to GPT Disk" in "Operations "column. Please select this function to get the following interface:
It can be viewed that the selected MBR Disk has been converted to GPT Disk, but this is just a preview effect. So, if the effect is exactly as what is expected, click "Apply" button. When all operations are performed, the whole job to convert MBR disk to GPT disk for Windows Server 2008 is done.
Do you want to create more primary partitions or maximize server partition? If yes, just try converting MBR disk to GPT disk to satisfy the actuality better.