PARTITION_STYLE - NtDoc

Native API online documentation, based on the System Informer (formerly Process Hacker) phnt headers
// ntdddisk.h

typedef enum _PARTITION_STYLE {
  PARTITION_STYLE_MBR,
  PARTITION_STYLE_GPT,
  PARTITION_STYLE_RAW
} PARTITION_STYLE;

View the official Windows Driver Kit DDI reference
// winioctl.h

typedef enum _PARTITION_STYLE {
  PARTITION_STYLE_MBR,
  PARTITION_STYLE_GPT,
  PARTITION_STYLE_RAW
} PARTITION_STYLE;

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Windows Driver Kit DDI reference (ne-ntdddisk-partition_style)

Description

The PARTITION_STYLE enumeration type indicates the type of partition table for a disk.

Constants

PARTITION_STYLE_MBR

Specifies the traditional, AT-style Master Boot Record, type of partition table.

PARTITION_STYLE_GPT

Specifies the GUID Partition Table type of partition table.

PARTITION_STYLE_RAW

The partition is not formatted in either of the recognized formats — MBR or GPT.

Remarks

The GUID Partition Table format conforms to the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) standard developed by Intel. For further information, see Intel's Extensible Firmware Interface specification.

See also

CREATE_DISK

DISK_PARTITION_INFO

PARTITION_INFORMATION_EX


Win32 API reference (ne-winioctl-partition_style)

PARTITION_STYLE enumeration

Description

Represents the format of a partition.

Constants

PARTITION_STYLE_MBR

Master boot record (MBR) format. This corresponds to standard AT-style MBR partitions.

PARTITION_STYLE_GPT

GUID Partition Table (GPT) format.

PARTITION_STYLE_RAW

Partition not formatted in either of the recognized formats—MBR or GPT.

See also