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...

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...

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...

storage devices ("boot device sequence") until it finds one that is bootable. Once the BIOS has found a bootable device it loads the boot sector to linear address...

FATs × sectors per FAT), the root directory (n/a for FAT32), and hidden sectors including the boot sector: this would result in unused sectors at the...

control" in 1984. The first IBM PC compatible virus in the "wild" was a boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, created in 1986 and was released in 1987 by Amjad...

also spelled as boot loader or called bootstrap loader, is a computer program that is responsible for booting a computer and booting an operating system...

appropriate boot sector in a file. NTLDR requires, at the minimum, the following two files to be on the system volume: ntldr, the main boot loader itself...

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...

in the Master Boot Record (MBR) is limited to 2 TiB with a hard drive with 512-byte physical sectors, although for a 4 KiB physical sector the MBR partition...

being loaded by a boot sector. In the PC bootup sequence, the first sector of the boot volume contains a boot loader called the volume boot record (VBR) and...

the Apple DOS 3.3 operating system using a technique now known as a boot sector virus. It was attached to a program being shared on a disk (usually a...

for a boot sector as part of the backward BIOS compatibility. Unlike the legacy PC BIOS, UEFI does not rely on boot sectors, defining instead a boot manager...

Stoned is a boot sector computer virus created in 1987. It is one of the first viruses and is thought to have been written by a student in Wellington...

is bootable by attempting to load the first sector (boot sector). If the sector cannot be read, the BIOS proceeds to the next device. If the sector is...

DOS Boot sector virus 1986-01 Lahore, Pakistan Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi Considered to be the first computer virus for the PC Byte Bandit Amiga Boot sector...

Windows. The boot sector or UEFI loads the Windows Boot Manager (a file named BOOTMGR on either the system or the boot partition), accesses the Boot Configuration...

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...

the PC by replacing the boot sector of a floppy disk with a copy of the virus. The real boot sector is moved to another sector and marked as bad. Infected...

operating system boot manager programs, chain loading is used to pass control from the boot manager to a boot sector. The target boot sector is loaded in...

the first 440 bytes of the Master Boot Record (MBR boot code in sector 0), or optionally in a partition boot sector (PBR). It addresses diskboot.img by...

monitoring intracranial pressure (ICP) - developed by Faisal Kashif. A boot sector computer virus dubbed (c)Brain, one of the first computer viruses in...

computer they are designed for. MS-DOS/PC DOS/DR-DOS A valid boot sector in form of a volume boot record (VBR) IO.SYS or IBMBIO.COM MSDOS.SYS or IBMDOS.COM...

engage the operating system or make any OS calls. Michelangelo, like all boot sector viruses, operated at the BIOS level. Each year, the virus remained dormant...

computers, the master boot record, is located beginning at the boot sector, the first sector on the first track (track zero), of the boot disk. The ROM BIOS...

gain public notoriety. It appeared in November 1987. The SCA virus is a boot sector virus. It features a line of text that appears at every 15th copy after...

intercepted attempts to read the boot sector, and redirected these to elsewhere on the disk, where a copy of the original boot sector was kept. Over time, DOS-virus...

contain, the length of the BPB is different for FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS boot sectors. (A detailed discussion of the various FAT BPB versions and their entries...

Checks all disks (hard drive and floppy) for boot sector viruses. Warns of attempts to write to the boot sector or partition table of the hard disk Warns...

The Ping-Pong virus (also called Boot, Bouncing Ball, Bouncing Dot, Italian, Italian-A or VeraCruz) is a boot sector virus discovered on March 1, 1988...