an index that relates sections of the hard drive to partitions
A table at the beginning of the hard drive that contains information about each partition on the drive. The partition table is contained in the Master Boot Record.
An area of the Master Boot Record that the computer uses to determine how to access the disk. The partition table can contain up to four partitions for each physical disk.
A 64-byte data structure that defines the way a PC's hard disk is divided into logical sectors known as partitions. The partition table describes to the operating system how the hard disk is divided. Each partition on a disk has a corresponding entry in the partition table. The partition table is always stored in the first physical sector of a disk drive.
The partition table is a section of a disk drive's storage space set aside to define the partitions that exist on that disk drive.
A file system table. It contains information of how many and which types of partitions are on the disk.
PC disks are often split in logical blocks known as partitions. Information required to access these partitions, as well as a flag which indicates which partition should be used to boot the system (the active partition) is stored in the Master Boot Record. See also boot sector, boot sector and MBR viruses.
A table in the master boot record of a hard disk that specifies how the disk is set up, such as the size and location of the partitions, which operating system each partition uses, and which partition the computer will boot from.
contains information about the primary partitions on that hard disk
The partition table indicates each logical volume contained on a disk and its location.
In DOS, an area of the hard disk containing information on how the disk is organized. The partition table also contains information that tells the computer which operating system to load; most disk ... more
The partition table contains entries showing the start and end point of each of the primary partitions on the disk. The partition table can hold 4 entries.