![]() They might but the means of doing the operation has existed for a few years now and they haven't yet. You could hope Microsoft would make it easier but it would be a change. Max size of a GPT drive/partition is 18.8 Million TB GPT drives can have a max of 255 partitions on them GUID = Global Unique ID = Every GPT drive on earth has a unique ID Its expandable, it can be added to to grow as new hardware is created. It supports mouse, it has a GUI so it looks better than previous bios could UEFI bios overcame all the limitations of legacy bios (as it came to be called) They only supported Master Boot Record (MBR) which can only have 4 partitions per drive (there are tricks to get around this) and max drive size is 2.2 tb ![]() They weren't expandable, everything had to fit in a small amount of memory ![]() Old bios were limited, they didn't know what a mouse was for, so everything was keyboard driven In 2006 or so Intel decided the bios as it was at time was too limited and needed to be replaced so that it supported newer technologies as they were inventedīy about 2009 a consortium of hardware makers had combined to create UEFI standard If your PC is less than 11 years old, you have a UEFI bios now UEFI - Unified extensible Firmware Interface
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