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Any key. The pause command in DOS requests the user to "Press any key to continue." In computing, "Press any key to continue" (or a similar text) was historically used a prompt to the user when it was necessary to pause processing. The system would resume after the user pressed any keyboard button.
A boot disk is a removable digital data storage medium from which a computer can load and run ( boot) an operating system or utility program. [1] The computer must have a built-in program which will load and execute a program from a boot disk meeting certain standards. While almost all modern computers can boot from a hard drive containing the ...
The BIOS in an early PC also usually would only boot from the first floppy disk drive or the first hard disk drive, even if there were two drives installed. Boot failure. On the original IBM PC and XT, if no bootable disk was found, ROM BASIC was started by calling INT 18h. Since few programs used BASIC in ROM, clone PC makers left it out; then ...
OneHalf. OneHalf is a DOS-based polymorphic computer virus (hybrid boot and file infector) discovered in October 1994. [1] It is also known as Slovak Bomber, Freelove or Explosion-II. [2] It infects the master boot record (MBR) of the hard disk, and any files with extensions .COM, .SCR and .EXE. [3] However, it will not infect files that have ...
The system partition and the boot partition (also known as the system volume and the boot volume) are computing terms for disk partitions of a hard disk drive or solid-state drive that must exist and be properly configured for a computer to operate. There are two different definitions for these terms: the common definition and the Microsoft ...
A boot image is a type of disk image (a computer file containing the complete contents and structure of a storage medium). When it is transferred onto a boot device it allows the associated hardware to boot. The boot image usually includes the operating system, utilities and diagnostics, as well as boot and data recovery information. It also ...
The Linux Unified Key Setup ( LUKS) is a disk encryption specification created by Clemens Fruhwirth in 2004 and originally intended for Linux . LUKS implements a platform-independent standard on-disk format for use in various tools. This facilitates compatibility and interoperability among different programs and operating systems, and assures ...
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 ...