• 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...
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  • Boot Records was a Canadian country, bluegrass, and contemporary folk label formed in 1971 in Toronto by Stompin' Tom Connors and his manager, Jury Krytiuk...
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    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...
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  • 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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  • February 2012: "The Best Of Hellcat Records"". Punktastic. Retrieved January 2, 2019. McDonald, Steven. "Give 'Em the Boot - Various Artists". AllMusic. Retrieved...
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    In computing, booting is the process of starting a computer as initiated via hardware such as a button on the computer or by a software command. After...
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  • A volume boot record (VBR) (also known as a volume boot sector, a partition boot record or a partition boot sector) is a type of boot sector introduced...
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  • A boot flag is a 1-byte value in a non-extended partition record, within a master boot record. It appears at the beginning of a partition record, as the...
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    Bootloader (redirect from Boot loader)
    bootloader, also spelled as boot loader or called bootstrap loader, is a computer program that is responsible for booting a computer. If it also provides...
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  • system will not boot. boot.xxyy – these 512-byte files are backups of boot sectors, either the master boot record (MBR) or volume boot record (VBR), created...
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  • Look up boot or boots in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A boot is a type of footwear. Boot(s) may also refer to: Boot Inn, Chester, Cheshire, England...
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    Multi-booting is the act of installing multiple operating systems on a single computer, and being able to choose which one to boot. The term dual-booting refers...
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    term "slice" is used in the FreeBSD operating system to refer to Master Boot Record partitions, to avoid confusion with FreeBSD's own disklabel-based partitioning...
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    nevertheless also used for some BIOSs, because of the limitations of master boot record (MBR) partition tables, which use 32 bits for logical block addressing...
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  • 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...
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    major bank or credit card company). Boot sector viruses specifically target the boot sector and/or the Master Boot Record (MBR) of the host's hard disk drive...
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  • Boot signature may refer to: VBR boot signature, a signature in IBM PC compatible floppy and superfloppy boot sectors (Volume Boot Records) MBR boot signature...
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    UEFI (redirect from Windows 8 secure boot)
    Boot order selection menu on a Lenovo ThinkPad T470 with UEFI The UEFI implementation is usually stored on a NOR-based flash memory located on the mainboard...
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  • NTLDR (redirect from Boot.ini)
    NTLDR (abbreviation of NT loader) is the boot loader for all releases of Windows NT operating system from 1993 with the release of Windows NT 3.1 up until...
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  • a data structure Record, or row (database), a set of fields in a database related to one entity Boot sector or boot record, record used to start an operating...
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    Boot Hill, or Boothill, is the generic name of many cemeteries, chiefly in the Western United States. During the 19th and early 20th century it was a common...
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    Das Boot (German pronunciation: [das ˈboːt], The Boat) is a 1981 West German war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach...
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  • Boot Record) refers to whether or not the boot loader can be stored in the first sector of a mass storage device. The column VBR (Volume Boot Record)...
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  • parameter block, often shortened to BPB, is a data structure in the volume boot record (VBR) describing the physical layout of a data storage volume. On partitioned...
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    Stoned (computer virus) (category Boot viruses)
    is now Stoned!", a phrase found in infected boot sectors of infected floppy disks and master boot records of infected hard disks, along with the phrase...
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    Golden Boot from 1994 to 2001, the Barclaycard Golden Boot from 2002 to 2004, the Barclays Golden Boot from 2005 to 2016, the Cadbury Golden Boot from 2017...
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  • League 1993-1998 Whiskey Jack, a Canadian musical group signed with Boot Records Whiskeyjack, a member of the Bridgeburners in the fantasy series Malazan...
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    Master boot record is loaded at address 7C00h and loads the boot sector of the Windows Disk partition. The boot sector contains the disk boot program...
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  • the extended boot records and their logical drives. Other operating systems (perhaps DOS programs used by backup or recovery software), boot loaders, or...
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    Welly wanging (redirect from Boot throwing)
    welly hoying, welly wanging and boot throwing, is a sport in which competitors are required to throw a Wellington boot as far as possible. The sport appears...
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