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The BPB FDC descriptor defines all the parameters required to logically read an NTFS partition.  It is stored at a location pointed to be the Partition Table record, and typically it is sector 0x3F  (63).

The FDC starts at byte 0xb, and although similar to a FAT FDC has differences.  The example below is described in detail.

000000   EB 52 90 4E 54 46 53 20 - 20 20 20 00 02 08 00 00    �R�NTFS      

000010   00 00 00 00 00 F8 00 00 - 3F 00 FF 00 3F 00 00 00         �  ? � ?  

000020   00 00 00 00 80 00 80 00 - 2F 37 38 1D 00 00 00 00        � � /78   

000030   00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 00 - 73 83 D3 01 00 00 00 00            s��
   

000040   F6 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 - A0 74 26 B4 90 26 B4 54    �  
   �t&��&�T

000050   00 00 00 00 FA 33 C0 8E - D0 BC 00 7C FB B8 C0 07        �3��м |���