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A boot disk is a removable digital data storage medium, normally read-only, that can load (boot) an operating system or utility program. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ...
While being one of the first personal computers, the Altair 8800 was considered a mere toy due its lack of abilities. ...
Rom is also the name of a toy and comic book character Rom (Spaceknight). ...
In computing, booting (booting up) is a bootstrapping process that starts operating systems when the user turns on a computer system. ...
An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ...
Boot disks may create and use a RAM disk for temporary file storage, to eliminate the need to write to the fixed storage media of the computer where the boot disk is used. A RAM-Disk, Ramdisk or Ramdrive is a virtual solid state disk that uses a segment of active computer memory, RAM, as secondary storage, a role typically filled by hard drives. ...
A computer file is a collection of information that is stored in a computer system and can be identified by its full path name. ...
Boot disks are used for:
- Operating system installation.
- Data recovery.
- Hardware or software troubleshooting.
- Customizing an operating environment.
- Software demonstration.
Floppy disks and CD-ROMs are the most common forms of media used, but other media, such as tape drives, zip drives and more recently, USB flash drives can be used. What can be booted depends on whether a computer's BIOS supports booting from that device. For example, some BIOSes do not support booting from a CD-ROM and require a boot floppy to run the software from the CD-ROM. Data recovery is the process of salvaging data from damaged, failed, corrupted or inaccessible primary storage media when it cannot be accessed normally. ...
A floppy disk is a data storage device that is composed of a disk of thin, flexible (floppy) magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangular plastic shell. ...
The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ...
Iomega ZIP-100 Drive Logo An internal Zip drive. ...
A USB flash drive, shown with a 24 mm U.S. quarter coin for scale. ...
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Boot floppies
Bootable floppies for PCs usually contain MS-DOS or miniature versions of Linux. The most commonly available floppy disk can hold only 1.44MB of data in its standard format, making it impractical for loading large operating systems. The use of boot floppies is in decline, due to the availability of other higher-capacity options, such as CD-ROMs or USB flash drives. Microsofts disk operating system, MS-DOS, was Microsofts implementation of DOS, which was the first popular operating system for the IBM PC, and until recently, was widely used on the PC compatible platform. ...
Linux (IPA pronunciation: ) is a Unix-like computer operating system family. ...
A megabyte is a unit of information or computer storage equal to exactly one million bytes. ...
An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ...
The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ...
A USB drive, shown with a 24 mm US quarter coin for scale. ...
Booting from a disk A modern PC is configured to attempt to boot from various devices in a certain order. If your computer is not booting from the device you desire, such as the floppy drive, you must enter the BIOS setup function, by pressing a special key when the computer is first turned on -- Delete, F1, F2, F10 or F12. There will be a menu option for changing the boot order.
Required Files Windows 95/98, Me, NT/2000/XP/2003 Floppy Boot Disk (MS-DOS) Along with the boot files, usually a Boot sector is also required. This is generally created with the same tool that prepares the boot disk, such as SYS.EXE in early Windows systems. COMMAND.COM is the name for the default operating system shell (or command line interpreter) for DOS and 16/32bits versions of Windows (95/98/98 SE/Me). ...
IO.SYS is an essential part of DOS and Windows 9x. ...
MSDOS.SYS is an important system file on MS-DOS and Windows 9x systems. ...
See also Gnoppix 0. ...
A boot sector is a sector of a hard disc, floppy disc, or similar data storage device that contains code for bootstrapping programs (usually, but not necessarily, operating systems) stored in other parts of the disc. ...
In computing, booting (booting up) is a bootstrapping process that starts operating systems when the user turns on a computer system. ...
External links - AllBootDisks - Providing Free Boot Disks from MS-DOS to Windows XP
- NetBootDisk - Universal TCP/IP Network Bootdisk
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