MBR Vs GPT - Everything You Need To Know
MBR – Master Boot Record In 1983, the first public implementation of MBR or Master Boot Record was available through DOS 2.0. The master boot record is stored in the first sector of a partitioned storage drive (HDD or SSD, or even a flash drive) and holds the information about logical partitions, file systems and how they are organized. It also has a part dedicated to booting, also called a loader, which usually delegates to a secondary loader. Volume boot loaders or VBRs can be stored on each partition, if there are multiple systems installed. This entire process is often called the boot l...
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