Andrew McGlashan wrote:
Okay, 446 + 64 adds to 510, what about the other 2 bytes?

Okay this explains all the byte usage:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record


Address   Description                  Size in bytes

0         code area                    440 (max. 446)

440       disk signature (optional)    4

444       Usually nulls; 0x0000        2

446       Table of primary
          partitions [1]               64

510       55h   MBR Signature
511       AAh   0xAA55h                2


[1] Four 16-byte entries, IBM partition table scheme.
NB: this is further described at the wiki link above.



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