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  2. Partition type - Wikipedia

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    The partition type (or partition ID) in a partition's entry in the partition table inside a master boot record (MBR) is a byte value intended to specify the file system the partition contains or to flag special access methods used to access these partitions (e.g. special CHS mappings, LBA access, logical mapped geometries, special driver access, hidden partitions, secured or encrypted file ...

  3. fdisk - Wikipedia

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    fdisk is a command-line utility for disk partitioning. It has been part of DOS , DR FlexOS , IBM OS/2 , and early versions of Microsoft Windows , as well as certain ports of FreeBSD , [ 2 ] NetBSD , [ 3 ] OpenBSD , [ 4 ] DragonFly BSD [ 5 ] and macOS [ 6 ] for compatibility reasons.

  4. Master boot record - Wikipedia

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    A master boot record (MBR) is a type of boot sector in the first block of partitioned computer mass storage devices like fixed disks or removable drives intended for use with IBM PC-compatible systems and beyond. The concept of MBRs was publicly introduced in 1983 with PC DOS 2.0.

  5. Disk partitioning - Wikipedia

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    The total data storage space of a PC HDD on which MBR partitioning is implemented can contain at most four primary partitions, or alternatively three primary partitions and an extended partition. The Partition Table , located in the master boot record, contains 16-byte entries, each of which describes a partition.

  6. List of DOS commands - Wikipedia

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    The FDISK command manipulates hard disk partition tables. The name derives from IBM's habit of calling hard drives fixed disks. FDISK has the ability to display information about, create, and delete DOS partitions or logical DOS drive. It can also install a standard master boot record on the hard drive.

  7. Microsoft basic data partition - Wikipedia

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    According to Microsoft, the basic data partition is the equivalent to master boot record (MBR) partition types 0x06 , 0x07 (NTFS or exFAT), and 0x0B . [2] In practice, it is equivalent to 0x01 ( FAT12 ), 0x04 ( FAT16 ), 0x0C (FAT32 with logical block addressing ), and 0x0E (FAT16 with logical block addressing) types as well.

  8. Boot sector - Wikipedia

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    The MBR sector may contain code to locate the active partition and invoke its volume boot record. A volume boot record (VBR) is the first sector of a data storage device that has not been partitioned, or the first sector of an individual partition on a data storage device that has been partitioned.

  9. BIOS boot partition - Wikipedia

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    When used, the BIOS boot partition contains the second stage of the boot loader program, such as the GRUB 2; the first stage is the code that is contained within the Master Boot Record (MBR). Use of this partition is not the only way BIOS-based boot can be performed while using GPT-partitioned hard drives; however, complex boot loaders such as ...