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Old 08-06-2016, 04:23 PM   #77
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Since the exposed storage does show as a disk and partition to Windows, I had assumed that the first sector was at least the equivalent of the MBR from some of the embedded text and the 55AA signature as the last two bytes.

I suspect I'm going to wait for the internal storage to vanish again before I do any more experimenting.
Hmmm... took a closer look at that first sector and it looks very much like a FAT32 boot sector which would mean that those modified bytes are part of the boot code block. This should mean the modified bytes should not be an issue unless you attempted to boot from your Kobo ereader.

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