• 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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  • 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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    Firmware Interface (UEFI) standard. It has several advantages over master boot record (MBR) partition tables, such as support for more than four primary...
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    definitions on how to store the information regarding the partitioning: A master boot record (MBR) is the first sector of a data storage device that has been partitioned...
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  • system. In that system, when one (and only one) partition record entry in the master boot record (MBR) is designated an extended partition, then that partition...
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    The 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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  • 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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    coreboot, Libreboot and Das U-Boot. On the IBM PC, the boot loader in the Master Boot Record (MBR) and the Partition Boot Record (PBR) was coded to require...
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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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  • backup and restore any region of a device to a file; including a master boot record. To duplicate the first two sectors of a floppy disk: dd if=/dev/fd0...
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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...
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  • a storage device on local network, etc. A hard disk to boot Linux stores the Master Boot Record (MBR), which contains the first-stage/primary bootloader...
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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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  • (Master 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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    advantages to installing a Linux boot manager/loader (usually GRUB) as the primary bootloader pointed to by the master boot record. Windows operating systems...
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  • that everything on the disk is encrypted, but the master boot record (MBR), or similar area of a bootable disk, with code that starts the operating system...
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  • partition ID) in a partition's entry in the partition table inside a master boot record (MBR) is a byte value intended to specify the file system the partition...
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  • editor allows access to the underlying disk structures, such as the master boot record (MBR) or GUID Partition Table (GPT), file system, and directories...
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    infecting the master boot record to execute a payload that encrypts a hard drive's file system table and prevents Windows from booting. It subsequently...
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  • According to Microsoft, the basic data partition is the equivalent to master boot record (MBR) partition types 0x06 (FAT16B), 0x07 (NTFS or exFAT), and 0x0B...
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  • the map) and unused (free space) on disk, unlike the minimal x86 master boot record that only accounts for used non-map partitions. This means that every...
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  • to the attacker, and erase them. Finally the virus overwrites the master boot record of the infected computer, making it unusable. The virus was used for...
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    recover deleted partitions, rebuild partition tables or rewrite the master boot record (MBR). TestDisk retrieves the LBA size and CHS geometry of attached...
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    the missing files to resolve the boot problem. In the case of the latter, however, the computer will not be able to boot, even into safe mode. The only...
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  • needed] Device Configuration Overlay (DCO) GUID Partition Table (GPT) Master boot record (MBR) "Host Protected Areas" (PDF). Utica.edu. Blunden, Bill (2009)...
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    UEFI (redirect from Windows 8 secure boot)
    by the Linux kernel's UEFI boot stub. In addition to the standard PC disk partition scheme that uses a master boot record (MBR), UEFI also works with...
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  • E3C9E316-0B5C-4DB8-817D-F92DF00215AE. Formerly, on disks formatted using the master boot record (MBR) partition layout, certain software components used hidden sectors...
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    filesystem information. The IBM's PC equivalent of the Amiga's RDB is the master boot record (MBR). Unlike its PC equivalent, the RDB doesn't directly contain...
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  • Michelangelo (computer virus) (category Boot viruses)
    the original master boot record to cylinder 0, head 0, sector 7. On floppy disks, if the disk is 360 KB, the virus moves the original boot sector to cylinder...
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  • The first sector of Track0 is known as the master boot record (MBR) and contains the initial code used to boot the operating system (bootstrap code). Near...
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