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From: kahn@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Gary I Kahn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Boot sector of harddisk?
Keywords: where is it?
Message-ID: <6941@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 24 Dec 88 16:53:01 GMT
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Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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The boot sector on a floppy disk is at head 0, track 0, sector 1.
Can someone tell me where the corresponding sector is on a hard disk?
I'm trying to locate the bytes on the disk which give information about
the number of sectors, heads, and tracks.  I tried using INT 13 to read
the sector mentioned above (0/0/1), but it turned out to not be the
boot sector.  The disk-editor utilities I tried use logical sector numbers,
not tracks and heads.  Thanks in advance.