Re: is there an Boot Sector or Partition Table on usb flash disk?

freegnu wrote:

hi all,
is there an Boot Sector or Partition Table on usb flash disk?


There are only 512-byte sectors on any kind of disk ( flask, hard, RAM)

The file system dictates how the sectors are used.

If you are asking about FAT files system, then yes there _must_ be a Boot Sector _and_ a Partition Table.

This may help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table

Google for FAT16 or FAT32 for further information and code samples.

donald


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