What is the difference between .mbr and .zipx?
- Extension
- .mbr
- .zipx
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- IBM
- PKWARE, Inc.
- 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.
- WinZip, starting with version 12.1, uses the extension .zipx for ZIP files that use compression methods newer than DEFLATE; specifically, methods BZip, LZMA, PPMd, Jpeg and Wavpack. The last 2 are applied to appropriate file types when "Best method" compression is selected.
- MIME Type
- application/x-msdos-program
- application/zip
- Wikipedia
- .mbr on Wikipedia
- .zipx on Wikipedia