The boot sector files of a system are typically stored on the primary storage device, such as a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD). Specifically, the boot sector is located in the first sector of the storage device, which is usually referred to as the Master Boot Record (MBR) or the GUID Partition Table (GPT) for modern systems. This sector contains important information about how the operating system should be loaded and executed when the computer starts.
The volume boot sector.
boot files are executable files stored in the boot sector of your hard disk that initializes the operating system on to your computer. examples are boot.ini, ntldr etc. its has 4 way process to on the computer 1.bios 2.post 3.bsc+mbr 4.ram
The BOOTMGR (Boot Manager) is stored in the boot sector of the system partition on a Windows system. It is typically located in the first sector of the hard disk.
boot partitionThe boot partition is the disk partition that contains the Windows operating system files and its support files, but not any files responsible for booting.
A boot sector virus is a computer virus that puts itself in the boot sector of a computer. The boot sector is the partition on the disk drive that contains all of the programs and files necessary for the computer to start up. This ensures that the virus will be executed once the computer is turned on.
The boot routine i believe is stored on the first sector or two of the disk.
boot sector : virus runs on start up of the computer. program: virus runs when you run a specific program.
A 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record )
A boot sector virus. Boot sector viruses place themselves in the MBR (master boot record). This is a partition on the hard disk that contains all of the programs and files necessary for the computer to boot up when it is powered on. The virus places itself here and gains control of the computer before the operating system can gain control.
first sector of the disk
A Trojan horse propagates itself via network connections. Boot sector via files copied from disk to disk.
On MS platforms, the system partition is used to hold the boot files. The boot partition holds all the windows operating system files. Leave it to Microsuck to mis-lable the partition hiearchy. The system partition holds what is loaded and executed first after the computer runs through its preliminary BIOS boot sequence. It tells the computer where to start loading the operating system from; the boot partition. The boot partition is where all the program files (thousands of them) needed by the operating system are stored. If the system partition is deleted; the computer will not find the operating system. If the boot partition is deleted, again; the computer will not find the operating system.