MBR is the standard partitioning scheme that’s been used on hard disks since the PC first came out. It supports 4 primary partitions per hard drive, and a maximum partition size of 2TB. The GPT disk itself can support a volume up to 264 blocks in length. . It can also support theoretically unlimited partitions Windows restricts these limits further to 256 TB for a single partition (NTFS limit), and 128 partitions.
What is New (Saturday, February 29, 2020)
1. [Added] – Option to show disk size
2. [Added] – Option to open diskpart under the menu
3. [Added] – x64 version
4. [Added] – Colorful lines instead of Grid Lines on List
Identifying Partition style in Windows:
1. Go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management
2. Select Disk Management On the left of the right lower pane,
3. Right-click on Disk which Windows installed on and select Properties.
4. Select the Volumes tab
5. The Partition style: entry will show as either Master Boot Record (MBR) or GUID Partition Table (GPT)..
For the novice users it is hard to determine Which partitioning scheme a particular disk is using and common question is “is there a easiest way to find out partition style ?”
Yes there is “Show Disk Partition Style” is a Portable Freeware to show our partition style with one click
How to use it:
Extract the ZIP file to the folder of your choice, then run DPStyle.exe , it will show your devices and Partitions styles
Supported operating systems: Windows 10 , Windows 8.1 , Windows 8 , Windows 7 , Windows Vista , Windows Xp – (x86 & x64)
File: DPStyle_x64.exe – Virustotal
MD5: 1107b79735bccf795cda86dd2d23248e
SHA1: 496cb31f1b206f7c2abb9b1f1ff64bb090bbeb56
File: DPStyle.exe – Virustotal
MD5: cb189dd60697610d031492b1684f4188
SHA1: 3ca092fdd3c4fde4ece4e12fa4b24d219bba90b1
Hİ Ray , we have noted it down , thank you
I would like to suggest adding these other hard to find values as well…
– File System (NTFS/FAT32 etc.)
– Cluster Size (4KB, 32KB, etc.)
– Product Revision (FW Version)
– Serial Number
Thanks!
I figured it out … You provided the Checksums for the individual UNzipped files. Not for the zipped files
I downloaded DPStyle.exe
and ran both checksums
cb189dd60697610d031492b1684f4188 and
3ca092fdd3c4fde4ece4e12fa4b24d219bba90b1
My checksum program showed:
4A4273DEC19022F7AAC52AE0FB6AA572 and
C63644BBE85362E2B0853133EF4D6949D7C1940F
I then ran the other two checksums for DPStyle_x64.exe against my results. Nothing matched! I ran the download ed file on Virus total and it showed clean with a SHA-256 checksum of 40de4da4d8ce528e8dffced5391d0a526a8debbefd36dd335cbd5d752cb1e1f6 which matched. Is your checksum out of date
May be it is a good idea to make one tool from dchanger and this tool for drives?
We have noted it down and try to add this option , Thank you
How do I change the font size if I have too small?
Thanks for the Show Disk Partition Style.
Please add the list partition option (Diskpart_select disk_list partition).
Thanks.
I suggest adding formatting type (NTFS ect…) and partition size. Useful for fast info about connected usb sticks or usb hdd’s.