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::''I second this information. The 'Bios Parameters Block' of a floppy is something that DOS&FAT enforces, but it's perfectly possible to use a floppy without this (except that you have very little clue about what the floppy will be and that you may fail to read a 720KB floppy without this if you cannot tell your OS it's not a 1.44MB disk ...'' -- PypeClicker
On a hard drive, the so-called ''Master Boot Record'' (MBR) holds executable code at offset 0x0000 - 0x01bd, followed by table entries for the four [[Partition Table|primary partitions]], using sixteen bytes per entry (0x01be - 0x01fd), and the two-byte signature (0x01fe - 0x01ff).
The layout of the table entries is as follows:
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