Clearing hard disk's MBS

Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Thu Aug 10 21:01:27 UTC 2006


Aaron Konstam wrote:
> Actually the boot record is only the first 446 bytes of sector 0.
> The rest of the sector is the partition table.

Why do people continually post this incorrect information. The
PT is *part* of the MBR, which is 512 bytes. The MBR has three
parts:
	code
	partition table
	marker

Mike
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