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The following glossary explains the most important expressions which you will always come across in regard to boot managers and partitions.
1. BIOS short overview
2. UEFI short overview
3. UEFI fallback boot mode
4. Purpose of boot manager
5. Partition / partition sector / boot sector
6. Format of partition sector
7. Master Boot Record (MBR) / track 0
8. Primary / extended / logical partition
9. GPT partition
10. Active partition
11. Hidden partition / true hidden partition
12. Bootable partition
13. Which partition IDs are recognized ?
14. LBA and CHS format, LBA mapping
15. INT 13h / extended INT 13h
16. SI and IEC units
17. USB drives
18. Disk signature
19. 4Kn disk