Re: Partition logic?

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Jim wrote:
> The MBR can hold up to FOUR partition addresses. Besides the "type"
> indicator, there's an active/inactive field as well for each partition.
> When that's set to ON, that partition is recognized as the bootable
> partition. When the BIOS loads the first sector from the HD (which is the
> MBR), the MBR boot code looks for the first partition marked active and
> boots that partition based on the address stored there.

Can I have only 4 partitions then? or is there some indirect addressing
to get at others.

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