Meanwhile, GPT supports 9.4ZB of usable space for a hard disk while the size drops to 2TB if it’s an MBR disk. By comparison, its counterpart MBR only allows for 4 primary partitions or 3 primary partitions plus 1 extended partition while GPT allows for up to 128 primary partitions on one disk. GPT is used to define the hard disk partitions in PCs with UEFI startup firmware.

GPT, short for GUID partition table, the replacement for MBR, is a new type of partition table. It’s based on the EFI 1.10 specification that was originally published by Intel. UEFI, short for Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, similar to familiar BIOS, is low level software that starts supporting new technologies once you power on your computer before the OS gets booted. In the Ventoy web tool, you can browse your USB stick and write the content of the application to the drive.UEFI and GPT are needed for Windows 11 installation? You can now open the app in Firefox by going to. If you see this, the Ventoy web tool is running correctly. Wait at least one minute after the operation is complete to make sure the USB stick is not writing changes, then plug the USB stick back in and close the Ventoy web tool. Confirm your action by clicking Continue twice. Select the USB thumb drive from the list that you want to use for the Windows 11 installation, and click Install. If the connection has failed, check that VentoyWeb is still running in the terminal window. Open Firefox (if it’s not already open while reading this page, lol) and navigate to. Now make sure you have a double backup of everything on the USB stick as the app will completely delete everything on the USB stick. Open a terminal window (CTRL+ALT+T) and run:.Once you have downloaded the file, extract the internal folder ->.

The file to be downloaded ends in tar.gz. You can download it here: It is recommended to download the latest version. Now that the Windows 11 image is downloading, we need to download the tar.gz file from the Ventoy website. Check How to create a bootable Windows 11 USB in Linux

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