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Why the location for Partition entry in MBR doesn't contain partition entry?
I'm learning file system recently. wikipedia says the partition table is located at 0x01BE, but when I check my USB drive(NTFS) by a binary tool, there are some words there "Press Ctrl + Alt + ...
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Unable to format drive to NTFS
I'm not sure what I did with my 16GB USB stick but now I won't be able to format it to NTFS anymore.
Tried to quick and full format it and I got this:
C:\Users\Home>format g: /q /fs:ntfs
Insert ...
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Does NTFS (or any file system) support files outside of the partition?
So on my C: drive, there was a file called BOOTSECT.BAK. Not knowing what it is, I opened it up in HxD and the first 14 bytes were B \0 O \0 O \0 T \0 M \0 G \0 R \0 corresponding to the UTF-16LE ...
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Recover Lost NTFS Partition With Corrupted Boot Sector
Is there a way to recover a lost NTFS partition with a corrupted boot sector ?
The backup boot sector is also corrupted. I know that the NTFS partition used to start in sector 551585791.
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How to write a localized NTFS boot sector?
Little unknown fact: NTFS boot sectors come in different languages. They can say "BOOTMGR is missing" and "Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart", but they can also say the same thing in other languages. This ...
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