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). >[cut]
I did not know about the meaning of the asterisk...so your explanation does make more sense than mine. Thanks for clearing up things. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
