boot sector

collocation in English

meaningsofbootandsector

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boot
noun
uk
/buːt/us
/buːt/
a type of shoe that covers the whole foot and the lower part of ...
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sector
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsek.tər/us
/ˈsek.tɚ/
one of the areas into which the economic activity of a country ...
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(Definition ofbootandsectorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The virus will safely overwrite thebootsectorunless the root directory has more than 96 files.
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When all infected files have been cleaned, but the virus remains in thebootsector, files on the system will be infected again.
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It was eventually determined that these size limitations could be overridden with a tiny program loaded at startup from a hard drive'sbootsector.
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They were originally deployed in response to the problem ofbootsectorviruses on floppy discs.
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The filename is referred to in thebootsectorby the boot loader.
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Similarly, if the boot sectors were disinfected, but the files were still infected, then thebootsectorwill be re-infected.
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They live in remotebootsectorhomes and do not interact much with other tribes.
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Ontario.2048 does contain abootsectorwithin it with a boot virus.
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His work, however, was destroyed by a usually innocuous virus which installed itself in thebootsectorof floppy disks.
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The location and size of thebootsector(perhaps corresponding to a logical disk sector) is specified by the design of the computing platform.
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Thebootsectorpresent on a non-partitioned device or within an individual partition is called a volume boot record instead.
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The command can be applied to hard drives and floppy disks to repair or create abootsector.
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The realbootsectoris moved to another sector and marked as bad.
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It will therefore install abootsectorcapable of booting the operating system into the first logical sector of the volume.
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Until floppy disks fell out of use, this was the most successful infection strategy andbootsectorviruses were the most common in the wild for many years.
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He developed what is now known as abootsectorvirus, and began circulating it in early 1982 among high school friends and a local computer club.
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The virus resides in memory, it infects the master boot records of all physical hard disks and infects the boot sectors of floppy disks.
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These viruses have the ability to infect both files and boot sectors.
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Relying on these register values in boot sectors may also cause problems in chain-boot scenarios.
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