Boot_sector Boot_sector

Boot sector - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Component, Contingent, Crescent, Detachment, District, Division, Dole, Fraction, Hemicycle, Item, Parcel, Part, Particular, Percentage, Precinct, Quadrant, Quarter, Quota, Remainder, Sample, Sampling

The boot sector is a region of a hard disk, floppy disk, or similar data storage device. It is loaded to memory and executed as a part of the bootstrap sequence. The boot sector often contains a small computer program that loads the operating system into memory and transfers control to it.

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