1st Sector (i.e. 512 bytes) contains MBR. Whats in the 2nd Sector.

Because 1st Partition Starts from the Cylinder Boundary and the boundary starts from the 63rd sector (63 sectors per cylinder).

Whats in between???

unallocated space, reserved for boot viruses.

Regards,
Janos

Depending upon the OS installed (e.g. Windows then Not much) anything else, there MAY be you would need to check for the file system in use.

Some older programs used to store boot loaders, RAID headers, LDM info, etc.. Some software developers used to store copy protection info in these areas and some computer virus writers used to put original copies of MBR and Boot sectors in these areas. But nothing of much interest to users, mostly these areas are full of nothingness.

Look up the structure of a partition table, then you may understand more

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Thanks for reply.

This means that the 62 sectors are free for us to use.

Not for definate, some software may use this area for copy protection/registration info. If you are planning something like this, check to see that the sector you want to use is empty. Also, Im not 100 percent on how Vista partition drives as I havent looked too deeply into this yet.

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