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  2. GUID Partition Table - Wikipedia

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    Negative LBA addresses indicate a position from the end of the volume, with −1 being the last addressable block. The GUID Partition Table ( GPT ) is a standard for the layout of partition tables of a physical computer storage device , such as a hard disk drive or solid-state drive , using universally unique identifiers (UUIDs), which are also ...

  3. Logical block addressing - Wikipedia

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    In logical block addressing, only one number is used to address data, and each linear base address describes a single block. The LBA scheme replaces earlier schemes which exposed the physical details of the storage device to the software of the operating system. Chief among these was the cylinder-head-sector (CHS) scheme, where blocks were addressed by means

  4. Cylinder-head-sector - Wikipedia

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    Cylinder, head, and sector of a hard drive. Cylinder-head-sector (CHS) is an early method for giving addresses to each physical block of data on a hard disk drive.. It is a 3D-coordinate system made out of a vertical coordinate head, a horizontal (or radial) coordinate cylinder, and an angular coordinate sector.

  5. Extended boot record - Wikipedia

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    Note: Any unused sectors between EBR and logical drive are not considered part of the logical drive. [1] The second entry of an EBR partition table will contain zero-bytes if it's the last EBR in the extended partition; otherwise, it points to the next EBR in the EBR chain. Partition type code = 0x05 (CHS addressing) or 0x0F (LBA addressing). [4]

  6. INT 13H - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] It defines new functions within the INT 13h service, all having function numbers greater than 40h, that use 64-bit logical block addressing (LBA), which allows addressing up to 8 ZiB. (An ATA drive can also support 28-bit or 48-bit LBA which allows up to 128 GiB or 128 PiB respectively, assuming a 512-byte sector/block size).

  7. Microsoft basic data partition - Wikipedia

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    In practice, it is equivalent to 0x01 , 0x04 , 0x0C (FAT32 with logical block addressing), and 0x0E (FAT16 with logical block addressing) types as well. A basic data partition can be formatted with any file system, although most commonly BDPs are formatted with the NTFS, exFAT, or FAT32 file systems.

  8. Fixed-block architecture - Wikipedia

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    The term fixed-block architecture was created by IBM in 1979 [3] to distinguish this format from its variable-length record format. Each track is divided into fixed-length blocks, consisting of an ID field and a data field. Application programs refer to blocks by relative block number, and cannot address them by cylinder, head and record.

  9. Address space - Wikipedia

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    An iconic example of virtual-to-physical address translation is virtual memory, where different pages of virtual address space map either to page file or to main memory physical address space. It is possible that several numerically different virtual addresses all refer to one physical address and hence to the same physical byte of RAM.