Introduction
I’ve always been curious about how disks are partitioned, and how the partition table looks like. This article will explain the format of the partition table and will provide a small tool (Partition Viewer) to demonstrate what we explained.
The information in this article apply for x86 systems, I don’t know about disk partitioning on other systems.
You are not required to have prior knowledge about disk partitioning; The goal of this article is to provide just the needed knowledge to understand disk partitioning, hence many details are left out for the readers to investigate by themselves.
Please note that this article does NOT cover the GPT (GUID Partition table). Continue reading “Partition tables explained”