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Since floppy disks never have an MBR, the first sector of any diskette (that's Absolute Sector 0 or CHS 0,0,1) normally contains the Boot Record for some OS. And since they are floppy disks, you'll most likely read about Tracks ( instead of Cylinders) and Sides ( instead of Heads) when dealing with them. These terms seem to make more sense to people, since you actually hold the removable media in your hands and can observe that the jacket (or hard plastic shell) contains a circular disc having two sides without ever having to think about the heads and mechanical parts inside a floppy drive.
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What is the name of a floppy disk containing enough of an operating system to boot?
Boot Disk or Boot Floppy
A script virus hides in the boot sector program of a hard drive or floppy disk or in the master boot program in the Master Boot Record?
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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.
IF The floppy drives light on when the machine is turned on?
Normally, the floppy drive light comes on so the computer can tell if there is a boot disk in there. If there is a floppy in the drive that is not a boot disk the windows will stop loading until the floppy is removed.
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 is the first sector on a floppy disk called?
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).
How would a bootable floppy disk be useful in troubleshooting?
After you make the floppy disc a boot drive (beforehand), you can use it to boot your system when you are unable to boot using your harddrive.
What type of viruses are often transmitted by a floppy disk left in the floppy drive?
Boot sector virus
How are setup boot floppy disk created?
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What is boot sector?
The first sector of a floppy disk or logical drive in a partition; it contains information about the disk or logical drive. On a hard drive, if the boot sector is the active partition, then it is used to boot the OS (Operating System; i.g Windows Vista is an OS). Boot sector is also called the boot record.
My thinkpad laptop will not boot back up it just comes up with a picture on the screen that looks like it wants you to insert a floppy disk with an arrow flashing to a floppy drive Can anyone help?
You may have lost the boot record on the hard drive or the hard drive may have failed. Try booting from a floppy or CD, whatever rescue boot device you have. If you can look at the C: drive from the alternate boot device you may have just lost the boot record. If you can't get to the C: drive you may have either a drive or a controller failure.
Does a system disk have to be a floppy disk?
No. A "system disk" is simply any disk which the computer can boot from and has an operating system installed on it. In most modern computer systems, the hard disk is normally the system disk. However most systems can also boot from a floppy disk, a cdrom, or even a USB thumb drive, providing of course that the media in question has the necessary system files on it. Many older systems did not have the ability to boot from the cdrom drive or USB drives. On these systems the only options were booting from the hard disk or floppy disk, so if the OS hadnt been installed to the hard disk yet (or it was broken) the only other option was the floppy disk.
