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What is the difference between hard boot and soft boot?
A a soft boot takes the intials steps if a hard boot doesnt happen.. A hard boot initializes the processor and clears memory
How can you decide which hdd to boot from when you have an OS on each hdd?
If both of the oses are windows oses you can use the MBR (Master Boot Record)to choose the OS you want to boot from or in your BIOS settings you can choose for it to automatically boot from a specific hard drive or partition(section of the hard drive).
What is the different between a hard boot and a soft boot?
A hard boot, or cold boot, involves turning on the power with the on/off switch, A soft boot, or warm boot, involves using the operating system to reboot.
What is the other name for cold boot?
Hard boot
Are boot sector viruses limited to hard drives Explain?
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.
Can you use two operating systems on two hard disks in such a way that you use one hard disk at a time and use two hard disks in the same computer in such a way that you use only hard disk at a time t?
first install the operating systems seperately on both the hard disks. then by changing the BIOS settings u can easily select the hard disk from which u want to boot from , i.e U can select the hard disk from which u want to load the operating system by changing the boot order !
Can a hard drive be considered a boot disk?
Yes. In fact the hard drive is the most common boot disk.
When should a soft boot be used on your computer?
A soft boot should be used on your computer any time that you press restart after installing updates, or programs. A soft boot is when you allow all programs to close before you restart. The only time you would use a hard boot is when you have to restart without allowing programs to close first.
Are boot sector viruses limited to hard drives?
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
What boot involves turning on the power with the on and off switch?
hard boot
If there is no CD rom how to boot from hard drive?
A CD-ROM drive is not needed to boot the computer. Just put the hard drive first in the boot order in the BIOS.
What is the safest way to destroy data in a hard drive?
Using the Ultimate Boot CD. It is full of programs designed to completely wipe out data from your hard drive, the 1 program I use from it is called Darek's Boot 'n Nuke, when you use it, it's like you just walked out of the store with a new hard drive, NOTHING can be recovered.
