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boot sec·tor
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boot sectornoun
A dedicated sector usually at the beginning (first sector on first track) of a storage medium that holds special data used to start a system. Some systems use a boot block of several physical sectors, while some use only one boot sector. Other manufacturers use the terms boot block and boot sector interchangeably.
Etymology: boot + sector
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Boot sector
A boot sector or boot block is a region of a hard disk, floppy disk, optical disc, or other data storage device that contains machine code to be loaded into random-access memory by a computer system's built-in firmware. The purpose of a boot sector is to allow the boot process of a computer to load a program stored on the same storage device. The location and size of the boot sector is specified by the design of the computing platform. On an IBM PC compatible machine, the BIOS selects a boot device, then copies the first sector from the device, into physical memory at memory address 0x7C00. On other systems, the process may be quite different.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of boot sector in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of boot sector in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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