关于MBR

MBR（Master Boot Record 主引导记录） is the 512-byte boot sector that is the first sector of patitioned data storage device such as hard disk.

 

The MBR may be used for one or more of the followings:

 

# Holding a disk's primary partition table.[2] # Bootstrapping operating systems, after the computer's BIOS passes execution to machine code instructions contained within the MBR. # Uniquely identifying individual disk media, with a 32-bit disk signature; even though it may never be used by the machine the disk is running on

 

在计算机启动过程中，经过了  加电，自检，初始化设备，测试设备，跟新ESCD（Extended System Configuration Data）之后，系统会把第一个扇区（Windows Xp）的内容读入内存，然后会跳转到MBR，从分区表中找到第一个活动分区（如 C：），然后读取这个分区的引导扇区，而引扇区负责执行加载程序，然后主动权交给Windows