Master boot record and HFS+

[Melodist]

Hello there,

I've just checked one of my external hard drives and realised that it is set to master boot record, but the partition being formatted in HFS+.

Thereby, did I potentially create a file environment that is rather unstable and flaw my backed up files?

Mike

 

[Erdbeertorte]

If you don't want to boot from it, I am pretty sure it's completely irrelevant.

For what are you using it? Just to store Data or do you use TimeMachine?

 

[Weaselboy]

Yeah... like Erdbeertorte, for a non-boot drive it does not matter.

 

[Erdbeertorte]

Yeah... like Erdbeertorte, for a non-boot drive it does not matter.

Thanks for the confirmation. I was only 99% sure.

 

[Melodist]

Okay so there is no downside / higher chances of corrupted files with master boot record?

 

[Weaselboy]

Okay so there is no downside / higher chances of corrupted files with master boot record?

Nope... not at all.

 

[Melodist]

Nope... not at all.

Okay I was about to backup the files from the hard drive, reformat and put the files back.

 

[Weaselboy]

Okay I was about to backup the files from the hard drive, reformat and put the files back.

There really is no need to.