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...

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...

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

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

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...

initialization.[needs update] In addition to the standard PC disk partition scheme that uses a master boot record (MBR), UEFI also works with the GUID Partition...

disk drive or solid-state drive. It is part of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) standard. It has several advantages over master boot record...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A live CD or live DVD is a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM containing a bootable computer operating system. Live CDs are unique in that they have the ability to run...

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...

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...

relevant to file systems on electromechanical disk drives (hard disk drives, floppy disk drives and optical disk media). The movement of the hard drive's read/write...

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floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of...