Windows Basic MBR Partition starting at LBA 0

[Shocko]

Guys, I have noticed that on some of my windows VMs, there are Windows Basic Disk with MBR and primary partitions aligned on LBA 0:

BlockSize  DeviceID               PrimaryPartition  StartingOffset  Type

512        Disk #0, Partition #0  TRUE              1048576         Installable File System

512        Disk #1, Partition #0  TRUE              1048576         Installable File System

512        Disk #2, Partition #0  TRUE              1048576         Installable File System

512        Disk #3, Partition #0  TRUE              0               Installable File System

512        Disk #4, Partition #0  TRUE              0               Installable File System

512        Disk #5, Partition #0  TRUE              0               Installable File System

512        Disk #6, Partition #0  TRUE              0               Installable File System

512        Disk #7, Partition #0  TRUE              1048576         Installable File System

512        Disk #8, Partition #0  TRUE              0               Installable File System

512        Disk #9, Partition #0  TRUE              1048576         Installable File System

How is this possible? Shouldn't the MBR be at LBA 0?

[a_p_]

How did you get this information? What - in case of a Windows VM - does diskpart report?

André

[Shocko]

I used:

• wmic partition get starting offset

Diskpart shows the following (only 1 disk shown here for brevity):

DISKPART> list par

  Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset

  -------------  ----------------  -------  -------

* Partition 1    Primary            500 MB      0 B