A boot disk is a removable digital data storage medium from which a computer can load and run (boot) an operating system or utility program. The computer...

A master boot record (MBR) is a type of boot sector in the first block of partitioned computer mass storage devices like fixed disks or removable drives...

expression full disk encryption (FDE) (or whole disk encryption) signifies that everything on the disk is encrypted, but the master boot record (MBR), or...

on a disk device. Each partition can be formatted with a file system or as a swap partition. Multiple partitions allow directories such as /boot, /tmp...

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A self-booting disk is a floppy disk for home computers or personal computers that loads—or boots—directly into a standalone application when the system...

A boot sector is the sector of a persistent data storage device (e.g., hard disk, floppy disk, optical disc, etc.) which contains machine code to be loaded...

limitations of master boot record (MBR) partition tables, which use 32 bits for logical block addressing (LBA) of traditional 512-byte disk sectors. All modern...

firmware provides several technical advantages over a BIOS: Ability to boot a disk containing large partitions (over 2 TB) with a GUID Partition Table (GPT)...

A boot image is a type of disk image that when on a boot device allows the associated computer to boot. A boot image usually includes an operating system...

device is a dual-booting computer that stores Windows on one disk drive and Linux on another disk drive. In this case a multi-booting boot loader is not...

and master boot record (MBR) Restoring volumes from Apple Software Restore (ASR) images Checking the S.M.A.R.T. status of a hard disk Disk Utility functions...

default, Mac will always boot from the last-used start-up disk. Holding down the option key (⌥) at startup brings up the boot manager, which allows the...

others. Pre-boot authentication: Whether authentication can be required before booting the computer, thus allowing one to encrypt the boot disk. Single sign-on:...

cold boot attack by cold-booting the machine and booting a lightweight operating system from a removable disk to dump the contents of pre-boot physical...

and core components of AmigaOS and then attempt to boot from a bootable volume, such as a floppy disk. Most Amiga models were shipped with the Kickstart...

introduction of inexpensive read-write storage, read-write floppy disks and hard disks were used as boot media. After the introduction of the audio compact disc...

PC boot loaders (FSBL, first-stage boot loader) located on fixed disks and removable drives must fit into the first 446 bytes of the master boot record...

to boot from a USB device through use of an initial bootable CD or floppy disk. Some Intel-based Macintosh computers have limitations when booting from...

Look up booter or Booter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Booter may refer to: Self-booting disk, software loaded directly at the bootup of a computer...

master boot record and can boot primary or extended partitions, which do not have the boot flag set. There are many disk editors that can modify the boot flag...

environment requires booting to a Windows PE environment. This can be accomplished by creating an ISO (to burn to a DVD) or a USB bootable disk, installed to...

A disk compression software utility increases the amount of information that can be stored on a hard disk drive of given size. Unlike a file compression...

no hard disk, which needs to boot from a floppy disk, is to configure a ram disk. The COMMAND.COM file is copied to the ram disk during boot and the COMSPEC...

An extended boot record (EBR), or extended partition boot record (EPBR), is a descriptor for a logical partition under the common DOS disk drive partitioning...

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BIOS finds the primary bootable device (usually the computer's hard disk) and runs the initial bootstrap program from the master boot record (MBR). The MBR...

The terms Recovery disc (or Disk), Rescue Disk/Disc and Emergency Disk all refer to a capability to boot from an external device, possibly a thumb drive...

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used a bootable configuration program on floppy disk, not in the ROM, to set the configuration options contained in this memory. The floppy disk was supplied...