


Very few users indeed would experience this, especially in the modern UEFI world where >99% of Windows installs are (or at least should be) GPT-based.

It's not something anyone would really be expected to notice - or even something Microsoft necessarily noticed - unless installing an MBR and a GPT with the same WinOS version on two machines side by side. Then continued to update the Windows Preinstallation/Recovery Environment for Win7/8/10 without ever going back to change something which already works. Microsoft probably coded GPT (for Win2K3 Server and Vista onwards) from "scratch" but imported MBR from Win2K/XP/etc "as is" and merely updated it for full compatibility. Join Date Mar 2015 Reputation 152 Posts 2,718 Samsung 850 PRO 512GB SSDs, 4xSATA3 RAID0 NVIDIA Quadro GP100GL/16GB, 16xPCIe3, NVLink1 (SLI-HB)
