On Thu, 8 Jan 2015 12:30:18 +0000 Mark Rogers mark@more-solutions.co.uk wrote:
On 8 January 2015 at 11:05, Chris Walker alug_cdw@the-walker-household.co.uk wrote:
(there was more struggle trying to find a solution than actually doing the conversion),
Can you describe the solution (or link to it) for the benefit of anyone else with the same problem who stumbles upon this thread via Google etc?
I used gdisk (it was already installed) following the instructions here :- http://www.ehow.com/how_12119053_convert-gpt-mbr-linux.html
If I run the gdisk command now it says :- /dev/sdd1 Partition table scan: MBR: MBR only BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: not present
*************************************************************** Found invalid GPT and valid MBR; converting MBR to GPT format in memory. THIS OPERATION IS POTENTIALLY DESTRUCTIVE! Exit by typing 'q' if you don't want to convert your MBR partitions to GPT format! ***************************************************************
Command (? for help):
=============== At this point I will now quit of course as the stick is in the correct format for me. I did remember to move everything off the stick *before* I tried mucking around with the partitions ;-)