Boot sector

Boot sector

The boot-sector is an area located on the first track of floppy discs and logical discs that contains the boot record. Boot sector usually refers to this specific sector of a floppy disk, whereas the term master boot sector usually refers to the same section of a hard disk. Also see: master boot record.

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