BIOS Parameter Block (BPB)

Bytes Size Contens
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00-01 Word Bytes/sector.
02 Byte Sectors/cluster.
03-04 Word Reserved sectors (starting at logical sector 0)
05 Byte Number of FATs.
06-07 Word Number of root dir entries.
08-09 Word Total # of sectors.
0A Byte Media descriptor byte.
0B-0C Word Number of sectors/FAT
0D-0E Word Number of sectors per track
0F-10 Word Number of tracks
11-14 DWord Number of hidden sectors
15-26 Reserved

Because DOS 4.0 supports more than 65535 sectors per. drive,
an extended BPB is introduced. For drives with less than 10000h
sectors, it looks like the old one, but for larger drives it is
extended as below. Note that the "Total # of sectors" field at
08-09 must be zero, for DOS to identify the BPB as an extended
BPB.

0D-0E Word Number of sectors/track
0F-10 Word Number of heads
11-14 DWord Number of hidden sectors
15-18 DWord Total number of sectors