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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. Microsoft Reserved Partition - Wikipedia

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    For example, the Logical Disk Manager (LDM), on dynamic disks, stores metadata in a 1 MB area at the end of the disk which is not allocated to any partition. [3] The UEFI specification does not allow hidden sectors on GPT-formatted disks. Microsoft reserves a chunk of disk space using this MSR partition type, to provide an alternative data ...

  4. Solid-state drive - Wikipedia

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    Prior to version 7, Microsoft Windows did not take any specific measures to support solid state drives. From Windows 7, the standard NTFS file system provides support for the TRIM command. [198] By default, Windows 7 and newer versions execute TRIM commands automatically if the device is detected to be a solid-state drive.

  5. Advanced Host Controller Interface - Wikipedia

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    Some operating systems, notably Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, do not configure themselves to load the AHCI driver upon boot if the SATA controller was not in AHCI mode at the time the operating system was installed. Although this is an easily rectifiable condition, it remains an ongoing issue with the AHCI ...

  6. Disk partitioning - Wikipedia

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    (Windows drive letters do not correspond to partitions in a one-to-one fashion, so there may be more or fewer drive letters than partitions.) Microsoft Windows 2000 , XP , Vista , and Windows 7 include a ' Disk Management ' program which allows for the creation, deletion and resizing of FAT and NTFS partitions.

  7. Dell Precision - Wikipedia

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    Along the 7720 the last PMWs with a dock port and a MXM slot, 7530 and 7730 use the Dell proprietary DGFF video card; Windows 10 Pro 64-bit / Ubuntu 16.04LTS: Precision 7510 / Precision 17 (7000 Series) 2015 2.79 kg (6.2 lb) E-Port Intel Core i5-6300HQ i7-6820HQ i7-6920HQ Intel Xeon E3-1505M E3-1535M E3-1545M E3-1575M CM236 128 GB (non-ECC)

  8. Advanced Format - Wikipedia

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    The enhanced ECC coverage improves the ability to detect and correct processed data errors beyond the 50-byte defect length associated with the 512-byte sector legacy format. [10] The Advanced Format standard employs the same gap , sync and address mark configuration as the traditional 512-byte sector layout, but combines eight 512-byte sectors ...

  9. Dell Latitude - Wikipedia

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    These were Dell's first laptops in the Latitude D-series, and also Dell's first business-oriented notebooks based on the Pentium-M (first-generation "Banias" or Dothan) chips and running on a 400 MT/s FSB on DDR memory. It had a PATA hard drive and a D-series modular bay, and used an ATI Radeon 9000 GPU.