Illegal.
depends if it infects the bios.
Yes. LiveCDs can access the hard drive on a computer, though you will need to know the partition identification to mount that partition.
The partition table on a hard drive is installed in a reserved area at the beginning of the drive. It tells the operating system where everything is located for quicker access.
Yes you can. I am currently using a 2010 iMac, and on my bootcamp partition I have windows 7. When you are logged in the mac partition you can see the bootcamp partition and copy and paste files. I m not sure if you need to install NTFS-3G on mac. Anyway it's free and I suggest you to install it. From windows 7 you should see your machintosh hard drive ( mine is called machintosh) from there you browse usr/username/ ... there you'll find all your folders ) ;)
The system partition(a partition where the operating system is installed) is the active partition of the Hard Drive
Most of the time the boot partition and the system partition are the same partition on the drive C.
system partition
System partition
Most of the time the boot partition and the system partition are the same partition on the drive C.
The area on the hard drive that contains a map to all the partition on the drive is called the partition table. That is what partition utilities edit when you add, delete, convert, or resize a partition.
Error checking, Defragmentation and Backup
By default C: is the active partition of the hard disk drive