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MBR type? partition table location?
Name: saiphes Date: May 20, 2004 at 11:43:18 Pacific OS: XP Home, sp1 CPU/Ram: 1.2 Pentium 128M
Comment:
When I find descriptions of an mbr online, I find half truths as far as my setups are concerned. My WinME computer and my XP computer both have ascii boot warning code where the webpages claim my partition table should be. Do I have GPT instead of MBR? Where is my partition table on XP if not somewhere in the last 64 bytes of my mbr? Basically, my systems are nothing like the descriptions on NTFS.com and other places.
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