Why is my disk showing as GPT protective partition in Disk Management ... Incompatible with older versions of Windows 32-bit Windows (such as Windows XP) doesn’t support GPT partitions.

Bob resurfaced from Microsoft's Graveyard to pad out the 30MB of free space in Windows XP, keeping pirates at bay.

In the Disk Management utility native to Windows 11/10, you can create new, resize, and extend partitions. In this post, we take a look at why all the options are greyed out or not available and ...