Though GPT disk has many advantages compared with MBR disk, it can not replace MBR disk thoroughly. Even in the era when large-capacity disk is overflowing, users sometimes need to convert GPT disk to MBR disk. Well then, how to complete this operation? It is believed that a lot of Windows 7 users are troubled by converting GPT disk to MBR disk. Though Windows 7 built-in disk management tool is added with 2 functions to convert disk, the 2 functions will not work unless there is no partition on hard disk. As a matter of fact, users do not need to worry about converting GPT disk to MBR disk though Windows 7 built-in disk management tool can not meet actual demands for converting disk. That is because there is a better method.

How to convert GPT disk to MBR disk without influencing data?
Actually, apart from system built-in disk management tool, professional partition magic can help convert hard disk. We can say partition magic is absolutely superior to system built-in disk management tool in many aspects. From http://www.partition-magic.com/, users can download a professional partition magic which owns powerful functions and high security. After installation, we need to run it to open the main interface:



In the main interface, we can see detailed information about disk and partition. To convert GPT disk to MBR disk, we need to select the GPT disk needing to be converted and choose the function “Convert GPT Disk to MBR Disk”. At last, click “Apply” button to apply conversion to computer. After application, all work to convert GPT disk to MBR disk will be finished thoroughly.

From the above demonstration, we can see converting GPT disk to MBR disk is a piece of quite easy work as long as we resort to professional partition magic. If you want to convert GPT disk to MBR disk without influencing data, try using recommended partition magic.