Hyperspace was envisioned as a way for these slow, low-power computers to instantly boot or switch between operating systems. [cathoderaydude] wanted to figure out what made this piece of software ...

BIOS uses the Master Boot Record (MBR) and UEFI uses the GUID Partition Table (GPT). As such, BIOS saves all its information on a BIOS chip on the motherboard and UEFI saves its data to an EFI ...

Some Windows users complain that Master Boot Record writes on the wrong drive when trying to boot from a device. As per the reports, Windows writes to the wrong device when multiple devices are ...

When the program is executed, it determines which partition contains the active operating system and branches to the boot program in that partition's boot sector to load it. See boot sector.