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2. Rufus (software) - Wikipedia

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   Rufus was originally designed [4] as a modern open source replacement for the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool for Windows, [5] which was primarily used to create DOS bootable USB flash drives. The first official release of Rufus, version 1.0.3 (earlier versions were internal/alpha only [6]), was released on December 04, 2011, with originally ...

3. List of tools to create bootable USB - Wikipedia

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   Linux, macOS, Windows Anything DasBoot: SubRosaSoft Freeware: No No — macOS macOS dd: Various developers Free software (most vendors) Yes No Unix-like Anything Fedora Media Writer: The Fedora Project: GNU GPL v2: Yes No Linux, macOS, Windows Fedora: GNOME Disks: Gnome disks contributors GPL-2.0-or-later: Yes No Linux Anything LinuxLive USB ...

4. Live USB - Wikipedia

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   Ubuntu 8.04 running Firefox, OpenOffice.org and Nautilus. A live USB is a portable USB -attached external data storage device containing a full operating system that can be booted from. The term is reminiscent of USB flash drives but may encompass an external hard disk drive or solid-state drive, though they may be referred to as "live HDD" and ...

5. Ghost (disk utility) - Wikipedia

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   GHOST (an acronym for general hardware-oriented system transfer[4]), now called Symantec ™ GHOST Solution Suite (GSS) [5] for enterprise, is a disk cloning and backup tool originally developed by Murray Haszard in 1995 for Binary Research. The technology was bought in 1998 by Symantec. The backup and recovery feature was replaced by Symantec ...

6. UEFI - Wikipedia

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   UEFI requires the firmware and operating system loader (or kernel) to be size-matched; that is, a 64-bit UEFI firmware implementation can load only a 64-bit operating system (OS) boot loader or kernel (unless the CSM-based Legacy boot is used) and the same applies to 32-bit.

7. Windows 7 - Wikipedia

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   Windows 7 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and became generally available on October 22, 2009. [10] It is the successor to Windows Vista, released nearly three years earlier. Windows 7's server counterpart, Windows Server 2008 R2, was released at the ...

8. Booting process of Windows - Wikipedia

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   In Windows NT, the booting process is initiated by NTLDR in versions before Vista and the Windows Boot Manager in Vista and later. [4] The boot loader is responsible for accessing the file system on the boot drive, starting ntoskrnl.exe, and loading boot-time device drivers into memory. Once all the boot and system drivers have been loaded, the ...

9. Windows Boot Manager - Wikipedia

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   On system with BIOS firmware, the BIOS invokes MBR boot code from a hard disk drive at startup. The MBR boot code and the VBR boot code are OS-specific. In Microsoft Windows, the MBR boot code tries to find an active partition (the MBR is only 512 bytes), then executes the VBR boot code of an active partition.