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2. EFI system partition - Wikipedia

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   UEFI support in Windows began in 2008 with Windows Vista SP1. [22] The Windows boot manager is located at the \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\ subfolder of the EFI system partition. [23] On Windows XP 64-Bit Edition and later, access to the EFI system partition is obtained by running the mountvol command. Mounts the EFI system partition on the specified drive.

3. Disk partitioning - Wikipedia

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   Each partition then appears to the operating system as a distinct "logical" disk that uses part of the actual disk. System administrators use a program called a partition editor to create, resize, delete, and manipulate the partitions. [3] Partitioning allows the use of different filesystems to be installed for different kinds of files.

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. 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.

6. UEFI - Wikipedia

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   The format of the file path is defined as <EFI_SYSTEM_PARTITION>\EFI\BOOT\BOOT<MACHINE_TYPE_SHORT_NAME>.EFI; for example, the file path to the OS loader on an x86-64 system is \efi\boot\bootx64.efi, [37] and \efi\boot\bootaa64.efi on ARM64 architecture. Boot process. Booting UEFI systems from GPT-partitioned disks is commonly called UEFI-GPT ...

7. List of disk partitioning software - Wikipedia

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   Free software Yes 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