I don't know what links are allowed here so if you Google this question then find a superuser result then that page will tell you that there's no difference, then someone will talk about MBR & GPT saying there is a difference.
I had issues with the media creation tool which have since been resolved so I've actually made this twice & want to know the difference.
Windows .iso + Rufus turned an 8GB drive which shows as about 7.2GB in to one that had 1.something spare GB left on the drive.
I then used Microsoft Media Creation tool to create the bootable drive - same drive, the spare space on the drive after this process is 2.90GB.
Quite a difference & if it's just essentially doing the same thing then why such a difference?
For the record, if I go in to disk management right click the drive that is my C drive, go to properties then it says MBR.
However I wont be installing on this drive. I've just had a new drive delivered which I'll be installing on.
As for what I'm wanting to do - my system is a Windows 7 64bit Pro system. I'm wanting to upgrade to Windows 10, for free, but via clean install.
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I don't know what links are allowed here so if you Google this question then find a superuser result then that page will tell you that there's no difference, then someone will talk about MBR & GPT saying there is a difference.
I had issues with the media creation tool which have since been resolved so I've actually made this twice & want to know the difference.
Windows .iso + Rufus turned an 8GB drive which shows as about 7.2GB in to one that had 1.something spare GB left on the drive.
I then used Microsoft Media Creation tool to create the bootable drive - same drive, the spare space on the drive after this process is 2.90GB.
Quite a difference & if it's just essentially doing the same thing then why such a difference?
For the record, if I go in to disk management right click the drive that is my C drive, go to properties then it says MBR.
However I wont be installing on this drive. I've just had a new drive delivered which I'll be installing on.
As for what I'm wanting to do - my system is a Windows 7 64bit Pro system. I'm wanting to upgrade to Windows 10, for free, but via clean install.
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