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Topic: Boot Disk

Related:
  Disk    Boot  
  Hard Disk    DOS boot disk  
  Disk Drive    Disk Space  
  Floppy Disk    Make a boot disk  
  Disk Operating System    Linux boot disk  
  Boots disks needed for Windows    Disk Image  

 
 
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Favorite website(s):Slashdot
Most admires:Bill Gates,  Steve Jobs
Favorite possession(s):Windows computer,  Linux box,  Apple Computer
Currently has on their coffee table:Mac Today,  PC World
Favorite book(s):"Maximum Internet Security: A Hackers Guide" by Net Sams
Favorite animal(s):Penguin
Favorite computer game(s):Hacking,  Quake,  PacMan
Favorite online activity(s):Finding warez,  Chatting on ICQ,  Downloading MP3's
Ultimate fantasy(s):Finding genuinely free porn on the internet
Favorite quote(s):"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away." - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
 
 
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Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

 Write is a program that writes a custom Boot sector from a binary file to floppy disk.
Is it possible to install NT without using boot disks or temp files?
Boot Manager can load any system from any volume on any disks, provided that the system is smart enough to initialize properly.
Rob Verdann,
Afterdark Removalist

 They are activated whenever the system boots up, and can infect data disks.
Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur

 Boot sector viruses infect the boot sector or partition table of a disk.
Shane Kelly,
Bar Tender

 Some boot sector viruses infect the DBS rather than the MBR when infecting hard disks.
Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman

 S boot disk for Pentium 90 Server supplied under ARIS which had a Sony drive and SCSI mother board We made a floppy bootable for Linux using rawrite program came with CD.
I could boot the laptop from the floppy drive with the Windows recovery boot disk, but the drivers wouldn't load for the CD ROM drive while it was out of the multi-bay port.
Cleaning up a boot sector virus can be performed by booting the machine from an uninfected floppy system disk rather than from the hard drive, or by finding the original boot sector and replacing it in the correct location on the disk.
 
 
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