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MBR vs. GPT HDD partition choice
My 85 year-old next-door neighbor has a 64 bit Win7-Pro PC and has run out of space on his single HDD. He bought a 2 tB HHD and has it successfully installed in his system as a 2nd HDD. He also has obtained MiniTool's disc partitioning s/w. MiniTool's wizard presented him with several options for partitioning this new HDD - particularly whether or not it should be partitioned with the GPT system. After reading through several partitioning tutorials and prior discussions, I have discovered that I don't know enough to give him any decent advice.
This user is going to use only Win7-Pro as his OS. Under this circumstance, I had thought one simply created a large extended HDD partition and then created logical drives within the extended partition. Given the more modern nature of Win7 and the larger sizes of HDDs now available, combined with what I read about GPT partitioning, I end up rather confused.
The existing HDD 0 has the usual Win7 partitions plus an extended partition with two logical drives in it. Can, or should, this extended partition in HDD 0 be set up to include the newly installed drive (HDD1) and thus allow the creation of more logical drives as desired? If so, how does one do it?
If not, how should I help the user proceed? I also have the essentially same query about one of my own PCs so sorting this out will aid both of us. Thanks, in advance for guidance, etc.