However, there's an asymmetry here. Although a PPC machine cannot boot up from a GUID-partitioned disk, an Intel machine can boot up from an Apple partition scheme disk.

Sometimes installing OS X may result in odd behavior if the partition scheme on the drive is not set up properly. If you are experiencing problems, a simple repartition during setup may be an easy ...

Click OK to dismiss the sheet. Click Apply and the drive will be reformatted with the GUID partition scheme. Note: When you reformat that drive, you erase everything on it.

What is a GUID Partition Table, or GPT? In this post, we will see what a GPT partition is and how it compares to MBR disks. We will also learn how to format, remove, or delete a GPT disk or ...

Content (IOContent): GUID_partition_scheme OS Can Be Installed: No Media Type: Generic Protocol: SATA SMART Status: Verified Total Size: 121.3 GB (121332826112 Bytes) (exactly 236978176 512-Byte ...

Before we begin the encryption process, your Mac’s internal startup drive must have Lion’s Recovery HD partition, which appears if you formatted your drive using the GUID partition scheme, as ...

In this output, there are two nodes—DeviceNodes: 0, of type FDisk_partition_scheme, and 1, of type DOS_FAT_32. Since we have used MBR fat32 as a parameter, so we will have MBR instead of GUID.

So I've just been messing around with my new macbook pro and decided to partition the drive for a fresh install. I figure I can eek out a little more performance by installing the OS on the ...