Translations:GRUB/166/en

If there are two physical disks available to the system, a great solution is to have one disk use the GPT and the other the MBR partitioning scheme. Normally, the Windows installation uses only one partition as 'system partition' and 'boot partition', called 'drive C:'. When in BIOS mode the initial partition for booting, the 'system partition', must be an MBR partition. This applies to every Windows version since Windows XP and includes Windows 10. Since Windows Vista (actually Windows XP x64 Edition) the Microsoft operating system supports accessing GPT partitions. The solution is to relocate the 'system partition' part of an installation to the MBR partitioned disk, and convert the 'boot partition' (the one containing \WINDOWS) into a GPT partitioned disk. Windows can thereafter access all the GPT partitions on the one disk, and will continue to use the MBR partitions (or hybrid partitions) on the disk containing the 'system partition'. The Windows installation (containing \WINDOWS) would be a GPT partition, even when booted in BIOS mode. Windows 11 no longer supports BIOS/CSM/MBR mode.