* Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive
@ 2007-05-18 15:30 99% ` Etaoin Shrdlu
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From: Etaoin Shrdlu @ 2007-05-18 15:30 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Friday 18 May 2007 16:48, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> I'll answer another question first: The asterisk indicates consecutive
> lines w/ the same data. So here, we have a full block (512 bytes,
> 0x000-0x1ff) containing almost only zeros. It stops with a valid
> master boot record magic number (0x55aa). This MBR doesn't contain
> anything, so there's no partition table, either. It also might be a
> part of a FAT file system's boot sector (the end-of-sector marker
> bytes).
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I did not know about the meaning of the asterisk...so your explanation
does make more sense than mine. Thanks for clearing up things.
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