I used WINHEX (a piece of software for viewing disk data in hexadecimal under WUNDOWS) to look at the information on drive C: (primary partition, file
system is FAT32). I discovered that the FAT area does not appear until the 33rd sector after the system boot record sector. I remembered that it should come immediately
after the system boot record sector. Later I converted the code in bytes 15 to 16 of the BPB in the system boot record
into decimal, and it came out to exactly 33 (could these two bytes be used to indicate the starting sector of the FAT? I remember that in a FAT12 system
they indicate reserved sectors, and generally are 1). Also, in sector 6 there is actually information completely identical to the system boot record, which
I really don't understand?。。。。。。。。。
system is FAT32). I discovered that the FAT area does not appear until the 33rd sector after the system boot record sector. I remembered that it should come immediately
after the system boot record sector. Later I converted the code in bytes 15 to 16 of the BPB in the system boot record
into decimal, and it came out to exactly 33 (could these two bytes be used to indicate the starting sector of the FAT? I remember that in a FAT12 system
they indicate reserved sectors, and generally are 1). Also, in sector 6 there is actually information completely identical to the system boot record, which
I really don't understand?。。。。。。。。。


