Where is the Windows NT Partition Table in the MBR?

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Could someone tell me where the partition tables are in the Windows NT boot
sector? on a standard windows 95 boot sector, there is a 64-byte Partition
Table (1BEh through 1FDh). But this is not the case for Windows NT.

Regards,
James

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Depends on NT version.
All versions prior to XP used the same partition table as DOS, XP introduced the new GUID-based one.
The old partition table is named “MBR disk” in XP.

Max

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> Could someone tell me where the partition tables are in the Windows NT boot
> sector? on a standard windows 95 boot sector, there is a 64-byte Partition
> Table (1BEh through 1FDh). But this is not the case for Windows NT.
>
> Regards,
> James
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Maxim,

you wrote on Saturday, April 27, 2002, 01:02:35:

> Could someone tell me where the partition tables are in the Windows NT boot
> sector? on a standard windows 95 boot sector, there is a 64-byte Partition
> Table (1BEh through 1FDh). But this is not the case for Windows NT.

MSS> Depends on NT version. All versions prior to XP used the same
MSS> partition table as DOS, XP introduced the new GUID-based one. The
MSS> old partition table is named “MBR disk” in XP.

But AFAIK the new GPT partitioning scheme is used only on 64bit Windows,
no?

Ralf.