ALL GPT formatted drives have a "Protected MBR" defined to prevent
incompatible OS's from trying to write to them.=20

The following might help with any other questions.

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/GPT_FAQ.mspx



Alan Melia
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-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Koffman [mailto:joshybear@gmail.com]=20
Sent: 01 February 2011 20:40
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [TECH] Can a Windows PC Read a drive with a GUID Partition Map=
?

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Nathan Nottingham
<kphlight@nottingham-tech.com> wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table#OS_support_of_GPT
>
> http://refit.sourceforge.net/myths/
>
> In short, you need a MBR for viable Win32 compatibility. =A0Your Mac will
gladly boot from a MBR, however, so sticking with MBR won't hurt. =A0The OS=
 X
installer just refuses to install on a drive without GPT.


Interesting. I'm using "Carbon Copy Cloner" on the Mac to do the
cloning, it flagged the drive as being a potential problem as a boot
source for OS X.

Thanks for the info!

Josh
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