Database</a></b> to help the user easily manage <A class="glossterm" href="javascript:kadovTextPopup(this)" id="HotSpot46268">backup</A><span class=glosstext style="display: 'none';" id=POPUP46268 > The term backup originates from the time when the best way to protect valuable information was to store it in form of archives on external media. It's become now a general notion to mean making duplications of data for protection purposes.</span> images (get properties,
file system parameters</a></b> (make active/inactive, hide/unhide, change
<A class="glossterm" href="javascript:kadovTextPopup(this)" id="HotSpot34269">serial number</A><span class=glosstext style="display: 'none';" id=POPUP34269 > In the DOS partitioning scheme, every hard disk and every partition has a 32-bit serial number represented by an 8-figure hexadecimal value. It is stored in the MBR and its value is assigned when the MBR sector is initialized by Microsoft standard disk managing tools, such as Windows Disk Administrator and the FDISK utility. In fact, a hard disk's serial number is not important for most operating systems and software. It is known that Windows NT, 2000 and XP store its value in the database of assigned drive letters. A partition's serial number is stored in its boot sector (in FAT16, FAT32 and NFTS file systems). Its value is assigned when the partition is formatted. It does not play an important role for most operating systems and software as well.</span>, <A class="glossterm" href="javascript:kadovTextPopup(this)" id="HotSpot42961">partition ID</A><span class=glosstext style="display: 'none';" id=POPUP42961 > or File system ID is a file system identifier that is placed in the partition. It is used to quickly detect partitions of supported types. A number of operating systems completely rely on it to distinguish supported partitions. Partition ID is saved in appropriate entries of the Partition Table and takes only 1 byte of space.</span>, <A class="glossterm" href="javascript:kadovTextPopup(this)" id="HotSpot37131">volume label</A><span class=glosstext style="display: 'none';" id=POPUP37131 > or Partition Label is a small textual field (up to 11 characters) that is located in the partition's boot sector. This value is used for notification purposes only. It is detectable by any partitioning tool including the DOS FDISK utility. Modern operating systems save it within a file system, e.g. as a special hidden file. Thus it is able to contain a relatively large amount of text in multiple languages.</span>, etc.).</p>