Which one to choose between GUID and Master Boot Record Scheme partition

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Which one to choose between GUID and Master Boot Record Scheme partition

I want to Partition My 1TB hard disk in three parts. One for time machine, one specially for mac and last one for both mac and windows.

I figure out that that Mac OS extended Journal(Case sensitive) is best for first two partition.

And.

exFAT is best for window and mac both.

I want to know which scheme to choose? GUID or Master Boot Record. Since i am unable to choose multiple scheme for different partition (in the option button)

Solve this and also gives suggestion on best way to achieve partition.

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), late 2011 model

Posted on Jul 31, 2015 4:35 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 31, 2015 4:43 AM in response to varun4

It has to be GUID, and if you want to install Windows you should make its partition using Boot Camp. It's not a good idea to have Time Machine on the same disk as your main system and data - if you do that you are simply backing up a disk to itself, and if the disk fails the backup fails. You should use Time Machine on a separate external hard disk, which should by GUID, and use Boot Camp to make your Windows partition.

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Jul 31, 2015 7:34 AM in response to varun4

Windows supports GPT disks, unless you are running an archaic version of Windows. I use a FW/USB directly connected disk for local TM and Bootcamp backups. For TM, the disk should be GPT and Journaled HFS+, for Windows it should be NTFS. You do not want to cross partitions across OSes. It can cause data loss.

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