MBR and OS Boot Records

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• Understanding Disk Drive Terminology
From Floppy Diskette media to Hard Disks (Page2 now covers drives over 8.4 GB in detail.)
• Understanding Partitions and Partition Tables (NEW!)
• Miscellanious Topics ( BOOT.INI  file, Data Recovery, 137GB Limit, etc.)
• MBR (Master Boot Record): Specific Types of Code/Structures
• All about MS-FDISK
• What does MS-FDISK Do to a Hard Drive?
• The Windows Vista MBR
• The Windows 2000/XP MBR
• The Windows MBR for FAT32 (DOS 7.1)
• The Standard (DOS 3.30 through 7.0) MBR
• Notes on the DOS 3.30 MBR
• The original IBM DOS 2.00 MBR
• Others....
• OS Volume Boot Record Sectors
• For Floppy Disks  [MS-Win 98/DOS 7.1, MS-DOS 5.0-6.22.]
• The original IBM PC DOS 1.00 Boot Record
• The original IBM PC DOS 1.10 Boot Record
• For Hard Disks
• NTFS Boot Sector [NTFS].
• The Windows Vista NTFS Boot Sector [NTFS].
• NT-type Boot Sector [but for FAT32].
• MSWIN4.1 Boot Records [FAT32].
• Boot Managers
• The Windows 2000/XP/2003's BOOT.INI Menu system
• LILO Boot Manager
• GRUB Boot Manager

Free Software:

References. Links. Free Tools, Utilities and Boot Managers:
 MBR, Partition Table and Boot Record Tools and Links .