Editing Logical block addressing (section)

===Operating system dependencies===
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Operating systems that are sensitive to BIOS-reported drive geometry include  [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]], [[DOS]] and Windows NT family, where  [[NTLDR]] ([[Windows NT|NT]], [[Windows 2000|2000]], [[Windows XP|XP]], [[Windows Server 2003|Server 2003]]) or [[Windows Boot Manager|BOOTMGR]] ([[Windows Vista|Vista]], [[Windows Server 2008|Server 2008]], [[Windows 7]] and [[Windows Server 2008 R2|Server 2008 R2]]) use [[Master boot record]] which addresses the disk using CHS; [[x86-64]] and [[Itanium]] versions of Windows can partition the drive with [[GUID Partition Table]] which uses LBA addressing.

Some operating systems do not require any translation because they do not use geometry reported by BIOS in their [[boot loader]]s. Among these operating systems are [[BSD]], [[Linux]], [[macOS]], [[OS/2]] and [[ReactOS]].