Master boot record (MBR)

Master boot record (MBR)

Also known as the partition table, the 340-byte programme located in the master boot sector. This programme reads the partition table, determines what partition to boot, and transfers control to the programme stored in the first sector of that partition. There is only one master boot record on each physical hard disk.

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