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    This document provides an overview of the Master Boot Record (MBR) and GUID Partition Table (GPT) disk partitioning schemes. It notes that MBR supports a maximum of 4 partitions and 2.2 TB of storage, while GPT supports 128 partitions and 9.4 ZB of storage. GPT also uses 128-bit globally unique identifiers (GUIDs) for each partition and has backups of the partition table and header to improve reliability over MBR.

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    This document provides an overview of the Master Boot Record (MBR) and GUID Partition Table (GPT) disk partitioning schemes. It notes that MBR supports a maximum of 4 partitions and 2.2 TB of storage, while GPT supports 128 partitions and 9.4 ZB of storage. GPT also uses 128-bit globally unique identifiers (GUIDs) for each partition and has backups of the partition table and header to improve reliability over MBR.

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    MBR

    Master Boot Record


    Marley Jaffe
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    Flag Starting CHS Partition Type Ending CHS Starting LBA Size
    00 000302 06 E17FFE 00000080 00763780
    *Data is in an IA32-based system, Little endian (least significant byte is first)

    GPT
    GUID Partition Table
    Globally Unique Identifier

    Protective MBR (LBA 0)

    GPT header (LBA 1)

    GPT vs MBR
    MBR = 32bit, GPT = 64bit
    GPT has a backup Partition Table located at Last LBA n-1 and a backup GPT Header located at Last LBA n
    MBR has a maximum of 4 partitions
    GPT has a maximum of 128 partitions
    MBR Partition Table allows for up to 2.2 TB (2.20 × 1012 bytes)
    GPT allows for up to 9.4 ZB (9.4 × 1021 bytes)
    GPT allows for each partition to have a 36 character Unicode name
    The odds of generated two identical guids is 1 in 5,316,911,983,139,663,491,615,228,241,121,400,000
    GUIDs are stored as 128-bit values, and are displayed as 32 hexadecimal digits

    Partition table (LBA 2)

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