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  2. fdisk - Wikipedia

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    IBM introduced the first version of fdisk (officially dubbed "Fixed Disk Setup Program") in March 1983, with the release of the IBM PC/XT computer (the first PC to store data on a hard disk) and the IBM PC DOS 2.0 operating system. fdisk version 1.0 can create one FAT12 partition, delete it, change the active partition, or display partition data. fdisk writes the master boot record, which ...

  3. Boot disk - Wikipedia

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    A boot disk is a removable digital data storage medium from which a computer can load and run an operating system or utility program. [1] The computer must have a built-in program which will load and execute a program from a boot disk meeting certain standards.

  4. Boot sector - Wikipedia

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    When GRUB is installed on a hard disk, boot.img is written into the boot sector of that hard disk. boot.img has a size of only 446 bytes. A boot sector is the sector of a persistent data storage device (e.g., hard disk , floppy disk , optical disc , etc.) which contains machine code to be loaded into random-access memory (RAM) and then executed ...

  5. Master boot record - Wikipedia

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    A master boot record (MBR) is a type of boot sector in the first block of partitioned computer mass storage devices like fixed disks or removable drives intended for use with IBM PC-compatible systems and beyond.

  6. List of DOS commands - Wikipedia

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    The FDISK command manipulates hard disk partition tables. The name derives from IBM's habit of calling hard drives fixed disks. FDISK has the ability to display information about, create, and delete DOS partitions or logical DOS drive. It can also install a standard master boot record on the hard drive.

  7. Boot flag - Wikipedia

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    There are many disk editors that can modify the boot flag, such as Disk Management in Windows, [5] GPartEd in Linux, and fdisk. Some BIOSes test if the boot flag of at least one partition is set, otherwise they ignore the device in boot-order. Therefore, even if the bootloader does not need the flag, it has to be set to start the boot code from ...