Learn how to convert MBR to GPT disk without data loss in Windows 11/10, using Diskpart, Gptgen, or AOMEI Partition Assistant. MBR disks support only 4 partition tables.

But now it does not read it correctly. In Disk Management the drive shows up as a dynamic disk. I did some reading and it seems that the Windows 7 machine will only read it as a Basic disk.

I have modified MBR from 0x42 to 0x07 in windows 7 to convert dynamic to Basic disk i.e. 0000001C0 01 00 42 to 0000001C0 01 00 07 and now my system is not booting up it is just showing only c ...

Fix Selected GPT formatted disk partition is not of type PARTITION_BASIC_DATA_GUID error message on Windows 11/10.

The most obvious difference between basic and dynamic disks lies in operating system support. While all versions of Windows--even DOS--support basic disks, we can't say the same for dynamic disks.