Chapter 14 Terms Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Booting | refers to the computer bringing itself up to a working state |
Hard Boot or Cold Boot | turning on the operating system using the power button on the machine |
Soft Boot or Warm Boot | using the operating system to reboot |
POST (Power on Self Test) | a series of tests used to find out if startup BIOS can communicate correctly with essential hardware components required for a successful boot |
Windows Boot Manager (BootMgr) | The MBR program searches the partition table looking for the active partition, Which windows calls the system partition it finds and loads the boot manager program in the root directory of the partition |
OS Boot Record | the first sector in the active partition |
NTLDR | windows XP boot program |
Boot.ini | Stores XP settings |
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) File | Contains configuration information about how windows is started |
Windows Boot Loader (WinLoad.exe) | for normal startups BootMgr launches Windows Boot Loader |
Last Known Good Configuration | this is what the registry settings from the last successful logon are called |
Windows Recovery Enviroment (Windows RE) | a lean operating system that can be launched to solve windows startup problems |
System Repair Disk | can be used to launch Windows RE |
Bootrec | to repair boot and bcd sectors |
bcdedit | manually edit bcd |
boot-sect | repair a dual boot system |
FDISK | used to manage partitions and create partitions on a hard drive |
Recovery Console | is similar to command prompt in Windows RE |
fixmbr | repairs the Master Boot Record |
fixboot | used to repair the boot sector of the system partition |
Emergency Repair Disk | to solve problems involving missing system files |
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