Doing so causes the GPT partition table to overwrite the data on the destination drive. To resolve this issue, the user needs to convert the GUID Partition Table disk to MBR.

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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.

Some users have reported that the installation process is interrupted when they try to install Windows OS on their hard disk. As soon as they press the Install now button in the Windows Setup process, ...

If you want to use Disk Utility to format—and more often than not, re-format—a drive in macOS, you may sometimes want to first choose the scheme for backwards or multi-platform compatibility.

Now with a little bit of searching I've found a Windows based tool that claims it can recover a GUID partition table called Partition Guru Professional Edition (the free version does not handle ...

When you want to format a hard drive, it helps to know the difference between a partition and a drive.