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Can thinkpad w510 format ssd to gpt?
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 2:45 pm
by Yong
I just got a new 120G ssd , and I tried to format it ,it asked me format to MBR or GPT ， Can I format it with GPT, mine is thinkpad w510 ,try to install windows 8 on it.Thanks!
Re: Can thinkpad w510 format ssd to gpt?
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 5:00 pm
by Neil
I won't claim to actually know the answer to your question,but....if you need an UEFI BIOS to boot a GPT partition (as seems to be the case), then no, it was the T/W420/520 series that first had that sort of BIOS.
Re: Can thinkpad w510 format ssd to gpt?
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 6:21 pm
by Yong
Thanks
Neil wrote:I won't claim to actually know the answer to your question,but....if you need an UEFI BIOS to boot a GPT partition (as seems to be the case), then no, it was the T/W420/520 series that first had that sort of BIOS.