Most operating systems uses the boot partition to boot the computer. In some operating systems, both the system partition and the boot partition are used to boot up the system.
On a partition on your hard disk. It is launched by bootloader located in so-called boot sector.
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Booting up ..! A boot process is a step by step process with which a computer loads the operating system.
When you don't have any operating system, the computer won't boot. You can only access BIOS setup or your boot-loader. In simple words, you can't do anything with it.
How do you get a computer to boot up with no hard drive? What are the steps or what is the process of getting a hard drive installed into your computer if it is not bootable because of a missing hard drive.
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.
The system partition is the active partition of the hard drive and it contains the OS boot record. The boot partition is the partition where the Windows operating system is stored.
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.
Information for BIOS: the active partition is the partition from which an operating system (or another boot-loader) should be boot-loaded.
On a partition on your hard disk. It is launched by bootloader located in so-called boot sector.
Windows stores the files and folders necessary for booting the computer primarily in the System Reserved partition and the Windows operating system partition. The boot manager and Boot Configuration Data (BCD) are located in the System Reserved partition, while essential system files are found in the Windows directory of the OS partition (usually C:\Windows). Additionally, the boot loader, known as bootmgr, plays a critical role in initiating the boot process.
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The second operating system should be on a different partition or disk. If you format the partition/disk that the unwanted operating system is on, the machine will have no choice but to boot to the remaining operating system.
The active partition is the partition which is marked as Active in Index table. the status and locations of partitions are stored in MBR(master boot record). The active status tells the system which partition to boot from. System boots from the partition which contains the Operating System(windows XP, 2003.....). So the partition which contains the Operating System is Active partition and it is the Primary partition. So we can call the active partition as Bootable Partition or Primary Partition.
This is dependent on your OS. Windows: 'C:\, C:\system' *nix:; /, /bin, /root, or /boot Mac: ?dont know? Usually this will be in the first physical partition(boot partition).
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Yes, you can. But you have to be careful and make sure that boot files are on another partition.