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How to Solve "The Selected Disk is of the GPT Partition Style" Problem Without Losing Data

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How to Solve "The Selected Disk is of the GPT Partition Style" Problem Without Losing Data About GPT and MBR:                   MBR and GPT are the format of hard disk. MBR is the abbreviation of master bootable record, and it only supports the maximum capacity with 2TB, up to four primary partitions, or three primary partitions plus one extended partition.                    GPT is abbreviation of GUID partition table. It is a part of EFI, which is port between operating system and platform firmware. GPT can make use of a very large space that is more than 2TB limit of MBR disks. GPT disks allow an almost unlimited number of partitions.   There are many ways to fix this problem. Solution 1:                      Download , install, and launch AOMEI Partition Assistant. (see picture, below) Step 1: Step 2:   Select the disk we want to convert, right click and select “Convert to MBR Disk”. Step 3:    Click “OK” in the pop-up wind