> Only adding some info:
>
> If we have the sector number as a 32 bit integer, instead of 16 bit
>integers, we would have:
>
> Old: 2^16 => 65536 * 512 = 33554432 bytes = 32768 Kbytes = 32 Mbytes
> New: 2^32 => 4294967296 * 512 = 2199023255552 bytes = 2147483648 Kbytes
>= 2097152 Mbytes = 2048 Gbytes = 2 Tbytes.
>
> Wow!
Even MS-DOS don't uses more than 24 bytes for sector numbers! (at least with
the FAT16 system). But MS-DOS 4 and higher reserves 32 bytes in the boot
sector for the number of sectors of the disk. Probably Microsoft don't
wanted to underestimate again the growing capacity of the future systems...
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