A Microsoft Reserved Partition (MSR) is a partition of a data storage device that uses the GUID Partition Table (GPT) layout. The Windows operating system...
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Microsoft operating systems, when using basic disk partitioned with GUID Partition Table (GPT) layout, a basic data partition (BDP) is any partition identified...
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to identify partitions and partition types. All modern personal computer operating systems support GPT. Some, including macOS and Microsoft Windows on...
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Microsoft internally. When the market of PC operating systems and disk tools grew and liberated, other vendors had a need to assign special partition...
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Master boot record (redirect from Partition sector)
compromised in more recent Microsoft implementations of the MBR, which enforce CHS access for FAT16B and FAT32 partition types 0x06/0x0B, whereas LBA...
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Model-specific register, a feature in x86 processors Microsoft Reserved Partition, a space-management partition on a computer storage device Mining software repositories...
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File Allocation Table (redirect from FAT partition)
FAT32 support with OEM PC DOS 7.1 in 1999. Two partition types have been reserved for FAT32 partitions, 0x0B and 0x0C. The latter type is also named FAT32X...
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defines "versions" as subtype. The Microsoft COM/DCOM variant (110x2) is characterized in the RFC as "reserved, Microsoft Corporation backward compatibility"...
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DOS (section Reserved device names)
Primary vs. Logical Partitions". The PC Guide. 2001-04-17. Archived from the original on 2012-04-17. Retrieved 2012-04-04. "Microsoft Windows MS-DOS Device...
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Logical Disk Manager (section Partition table types)
Microsoft is 32. Only server versions of Windows (Windows Server) can support RAID5 feature of LDM. ^1 On a disk partitioned with the MBR Partition Table...
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Development Group. Retrieved 16 April 2025. "Reserved Keywords (Transact-SQL)". Microsoft Docs – SQL Server. Microsoft. Retrieved 23 December 2020. ISO/IEC 9075-2:2023...
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MS-DOS (redirect from Microsoft DOS)
Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft....
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NTFS (section Partition Boot Sector (PBS))
identifying the file system in a partition type 07 must perform additional checks to distinguish between HPFS and NTFS. Microsoft has released five versions...
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Design of the FAT file system (redirect from FAT (reserved sectors))
endianness marker (in reserved cluster #0), with 0xF0 indicating a volume on a non-partitioned superfloppy drive (must be 0xF8 for partitioned disks) End of chain...
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and 5349 for TCP over TLS. ... "Security guide for Microsoft Teams". Microsoft Learn. Microsoft. 25 July 2023. Retrieved 31 July 2023. "Test Internet...
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Volume boot record (redirect from Partition Boot Record)
partition boot record or a partition boot sector) is a type of boot sector introduced by the IBM Personal Computer. It may be found on a partitioned data...
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Precompiled header (section Microsoft Visual C and C++)
source code (for instance, the header files windows.h and Cocoa/Cocoa.h on Microsoft Windows and OS X, respectively). This is especially true with the advent...
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DriveSpace (redirect from Microsoft DoubleGuard)
with all the space allocated to one partition (usually as drive C:). The software would compress the entire partition contents into one large file in the...
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Disk formatting (section Partitioning)
of Windows XP from Microsoft Help and Support support.microsoft.com — How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to Partition or Repartition a Hard...
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used to access specific unique resources on those devices, such as disk partitions. Additionally, device files are useful for accessing system resources...
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Windows 10 (redirect from Microsoft Windows 10)
files were downloaded to some computers that had reserved it. Microsoft said that those who reserved Windows 10 would be able to install it through GWX...
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B: — Reserved for a second floppy drive (that was present on many PCs). C: — First hard disk drive partition. D: to Z: — Other disk partitions get labeled...
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Virtual PC (redirect from Microsoft virtual pc)
emulator software for Microsoft Windows hosts and PowerPC-based Mac hosts. It was created by Connectix in 1997 and acquired by Microsoft in 2003, after which...
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byte range 0x7FFFFF00 to 0x7FFFFFFF in the file. This area is reserved by Microsoft's COM implementation for storing byte-range locking information for...
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Memory paging (redirect from Swap partition)
needed pages from a file, e.g., memory-mapped file, paging file, or a swap partition containing the page data into RAM. Some systems use only demand paging—waiting...
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Cosmos DB (category Microsoft cloud services)
supported by Microsoft and available for .NET Framework, .NET, Node.js (JavaScript), Java and Python. Cosmos DB added automatic partitioning capability...
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Filename (redirect from Reserved character)
Conventions". MSDN, Microsoft.com. See last bulleted item. Naming a file msdn.microsoft.com (MSDN), filename restrictions on Windows Microsoft Windows 95 README...
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List of DOS commands (category Microsoft lists)
later. CHKDSK verifies a storage volume (for example, a hard disk, disk partition or floppy disk) for file system integrity. The command has the ability...
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sector size of 512 bytes) of standard FAT32 partitions. Support for up to 2,796,202 files per directory. Microsoft documents a limit of 65,534 (216 − 2) files...
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Microsoft Windows was announced by Bill Gates on November 10, 1983, 2 years before it was first released. Microsoft introduced Windows as a graphical...
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