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2. Boot disk - Wikipedia

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   A modern PC is configured to attempt to boot from various devices in a certain order. If a computer is not booting from the device desired, such as the floppy drive, the user may have to enter the BIOS Setup function by pressing a special key when the computer is first turned on (such as Delete, F1, F2, F10 or F12), and then changing the boot order. [6]

3. Self-booting disk - Wikipedia

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   A self-booting disk is a floppy disk for home computers or personal computers that loads—or boots—directly into a standalone application when the system is turned on, bypassing the operating system. This was common, even standard, on some computers in the late 1970s to early 1990s.

4. List of tools to create bootable USB - Wikipedia

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   GNOME Disks: Gnome disks contributors GPL-2.0-or-later: Yes No Linux Anything LinuxLive USB Creator (LiLi) Thibaut Lauzière GNU GPL v3: No No Windows Linux remastersys: Tony Brijeski GNU GPL v2: No [2] No Debian, Linux Mint, Ubuntu Debian and derivatives Rufus: Pete Batard GNU GPL v3: Yes No Windows Anything SliTaz TazUSB: SliTaz GNU GPL v3 ...

5. tomsrtbt - Wikipedia

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   tomsrtbt (pronounced: Tom's Root Boot) is a very small Linux distribution.It is short for "Tom's floppy which has a root filesystem and is also bootable." [1] Its author, Tom Oehser, touts it as "The most GNU/Linux on one floppy disk", containing many common Linux command-line tools useful for system recovery (Linux and other operating systems.)

6. Live USB - Wikipedia

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   In these cases a computer can often be "redirected" to boot from a USB device through use of an initial bootable CD or floppy disk. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Some Intel-based Macintosh computers have limitations when booting from USB devices – while the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) firmware can recognize and boot from USB drives, it can do ...

7. Drive letter assignment - Wikipedia

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   A: — Floppy disk drives, 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 ″ or 5 + 1 ⁄ 4 ″, and possibly other types of disk drives, if present. B: — Reserved for a second floppy drive (that was present on many PCs). C: — First hard disk drive partition. D: to Z: — Other disk partitions get labeled here. Windows assigns the next free drive letter to the next drive it ...

8. Ghost (disk utility) - Wikipedia

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   It can create an image file that is larger than 2 GB. (In GHOST 8.2 or earlier, such image files are automatically split into two or more segments, so that each segment has a maximum size of 2 GB.) Other new features include more comprehensive manufacturing tools, and the ability to create a "universal boot disk". [further explanation needed]

9. Floppy disk - Wikipedia

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   A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined with a fabric that removes dust particles from the spinning disk.