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What is a boot sector

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A boot sector is the sector of a persistent data storage device which contains machine code to be loaded into random-access memory and then executed by a computer system's built-in firmware. Usually, the very first sector of the hard disk is the boot sector, regardless of sector size and partitioning flavor.

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