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2. EFI system partition - Wikipedia

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   On Apple Mac computers using Intel x86-64 processor architecture, the EFI system partition is initially left blank and unused for booting into macOS. [13] [14]However, the EFI system partition is used as a staging area for firmware updates [15] and for the Microsoft Windows bootloader for Mac computers configured to boot into a Windows partition using Boot Camp.

3. Boot Camp (software) - Wikipedia

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   A workaround has been discovered that involves interrupting the standard procedure after creating the Boot Camp partition, resizing the primary Mac OS X partition and creating a third partition in the now available space, then continuing with the Windows install. [18]

4. Windows Boot Manager - Wikipedia

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   It replaced the NTLDR present in older versions of Windows. The boot sector or UEFI loads the Windows Boot Manager (a file named BOOTMGR on either the system or the boot partition), accesses the Boot Configuration Data store and uses the information to load the operating system through winload.exe or winresume.exe on BIOS systems, and winload ...

5. EasyBCD - Wikipedia

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   EasyBCD has a number of bootloader-related features that can be used to repair and configure the bootloader. From the "Manage Bootloader" section of EasyBCD, it is possible to switch between the BOOTMGR bootloader (used since Windows Vista) and the NTLDR bootloader (used by legacy versions of Windows, from Windows NT to Windows XP) in the MBR from within Windows by simply clicking a button.

6. Apple Partition Map - Wikipedia

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   The Apple Partition Map maps out all space used (including the map) and unused (free space) on disk, unlike the minimal x86 master boot record that only accounts for used non-map partitions. This means that every block on the disk (with the exception of the first block, Block 0 ) belongs to a partition.

7. System partition and boot partition - Wikipedia

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   The system partition is the disk partition that contains the operating system folder, known as the system root. By default, in Linux, operating system files are mounted at / (the root directory). In Linux, a single partition can be both a boot and a system partition if both /boot/ and the root directory are in the same partition.

8. List of disk partitioning software - Wikipedia

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   Linux, macOS, Windows July 5, 2018 KDE Partition Manager: Volker Lanz Free software Yes Linux Logical Disk Manager: Microsoft Proprietary software Yes Windows NT family: MiniTool Partition Wizard: MiniTool Solution Freeware Yes Microsoft Windows: August 15, 2023 ntfsresize: Szabolcs Szakacsits Free software Yes Linux: Parted Magic: Parted Magic LLC

9. Microsoft basic data partition - Wikipedia

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   According to Microsoft, the basic data partition is the equivalent to master boot record (MBR) partition types 0x06 , 0x07 (NTFS or exFAT), and 0x0B . [2] In practice, it is equivalent to 0x01 ( FAT12 ), 0x04 ( FAT16 ), 0x0C (FAT32 with logical block addressing ), and 0x0E (FAT16 with logical block addressing) types as well.