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Why are the first shown sectors on a HDD like 63, instead of 0 or 1? What is recorded on those first few sectors? Is that like with digital cameras where there is a programmed amount of data on those sectors like serial number, time stamp; etc?
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http://en.wikipedia....ter_boot_record
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HA! same link
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