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  2. EFI system partition - Wikipedia

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    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. Available on Itanium-based computers only. [24]

  3. 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.

  4. BIOS boot partition - Wikipedia

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    The EFI System partition holds a filesystem and files used by the UEFI, while the BIOS boot partition is used in BIOS-based systems and accessed without a filesystem by holding raw binary code. The size requirements for a BIOS boot partition are quite low so it can be as small as about 30 KiB; however, as future boot loaders might require more ...

  5. 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.

  6. GUID Partition Table - Wikipedia

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    Windows Server 2019: 2018-10-02 x64 Yes Requires UEFI MBR takes precedence in hybrid configuration. Windows Server 2022: 2021-08-18 [40] x64 Yes Requires UEFI MBR takes precedence in hybrid configuration. Windows 11: 2021-10-05 x64, ARM64 Yes Yes UEFI is a system requirement for Windows 11.

  7. Microsoft Reserved Partition - Wikipedia

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    The MSR should be located after the EFI System Partition (ESP) and any OEM service partitions, but it must be located before Windows partition. [1] Microsoft expects an MSR to be present on every GPT disk, and recommends it to be created as the disk is initially partitioned.

  8. Booting process of Windows - Wikipedia

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    When a user is logging on to Windows, the startup sound is played, the shell (usually EXPLORER.EXE) is loaded from the [boot] section of the SYSTEM.INI file, and startup items are loaded. In all versions of Windows 9x except ME, it is also possible to load Windows by booting to a DOS prompt and typing "win".

  9. Microsoft basic data partition - Wikipedia

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    A basic data partition can be formatted with any file system, although most commonly BDPs are formatted with the NTFS, exFAT, or FAT32 file systems. To programmatically determine which file system a BDP contains, Microsoft specifies that one should inspect the BIOS Parameter Block that is contained in the BDP's Volume Boot Record.