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BOOT record
Boot virus
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The master boot record is always located at cylinder 0, head 0, and sector 1, the first sector on the disk.
Yes. They hide in the boot sector program of a hard drive or floppy disk or in the master boot program in the Master Boot Record.
MBR Master Boot RecordA Master Boot Record (MBR), or partition sector, is the 512-byte boot sector that is the first sector ("Sector 0") of a partitioned data storage device such as a hard disk. ( from: http://whitehouse.com)
No. It hides in the boot sector program of a hard drive or floppy disk or in the master boot program in the Master Boot Record (MBR). Don Gus
It is just like every other sector on a hard disk, an area to store data, except for the fact that it contains the MBR (Master Boot Record).
If you Master Boot Record is damaged, then your computer will/can not load up an operating system (such as Windows). You can mend this from the original Installation disk for your operating system.
A Disk Boot Fail means that the disk you normally start your computer from is not working. The computer can be started from the System Disk but that system disk will wear out so you will have no boot disk and no way of repairing the boot disk. Time to look for a new boot disk or better a brand new computer
Well, assuming you mean "Master Boot Record". The master boot record is a 512 byte strip of data on a disk which contains, along with a few other things, the partition table for the disk in question and the bootstrap info for the operating system AND the disk identification. The last one is not always used. The MBR is very important.
Boot Disk or Boot Floppy