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On Friday 18 May 2007 16:48, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: |
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> I'll answer another question first: The asterisk indicates consecutive |
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> lines w/ the same data. So here, we have a full block (512 bytes, |
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> 0x000-0x1ff) containing almost only zeros. It stops with a valid |
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> master boot record magic number (0x55aa). This MBR doesn't contain |
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> anything, so there's no partition table, either. It also might be a |
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> part of a FAT file system's boot sector (the end-of-sector marker |
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> bytes). |
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I did not know about the meaning of the asterisk...so your explanation |
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does make more sense than mine. Thanks for clearing up things. |
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