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Boot Sector
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id: d3f:BootSector
- name
- Boot Sector
- definition
- A boot record [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 into random-access memory (RAM) and then executed by a computer system's built-in firmware (e.g., the BIOS, Das U-Boot, etc.).
- see also
- http://dbpedia.org/resource/Boot_sector
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