What is the difference between .mbr and .zip?
- Extension
- .mbr
- .zip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- IBM
- Phil Katz
- Description
- MBR was introduced by IBM PC. It is called Master Boot Record as it's a unique boot sector found at the beginning of a drive. It stores the OS boot loader and information on the drive's logical partitions.
- A ZIP file is an archive that contains one or more files compressed or "zipped" using Zip compression. It stores files separately from each other allowing the files to be compressed using different methods and extracted without compressing or decompressing the entire archive.
- MIME Type
- application/x-msdos-program
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.zip
- Wikipedia
- .mbr on Wikipedia
- .zip on Wikipedia