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2. Volume boot record - Wikipedia

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   A volume boot record ( VBR) (also known as a volume boot sector, a partition boot record or a partition boot sector) is a type of boot sector introduced by the IBM Personal Computer. It may be found on a partitioned data storage device, such as a hard disk, or an unpartitioned device, such as a floppy disk, and contains machine code for ...

3. Boot sector - Wikipedia

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   A boot sector is the sector of a persistent data storage device (e.g., hard disk, floppy disk, optical disc, etc.) which contains machine code to be loaded into random-access memory (RAM) and then executed by a computer system 's built-in firmware (e.g., the BIOS ). Usually, the first sector of the hard disk is the boot sector, regardless of ...

4. System partition and boot partition - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. VU meter - Wikipedia

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   An analog VU meter with peak LED. A volume unit (VU) meter or standard volume indicator (SVI) is a device displaying a representation of the signal level in audio equipment.. The original design was proposed in the 1940 IRE paper, A New Standard Volume Indicator and Reference Level, written by experts from CBS, NBC, and Bell Telephone Laboratories.

6. List of Dungeons & Dragons modules - Wikipedia

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   Official download of 3.5 conversion: S2 9027: White Plume Mountain: 5–10: Lawrence Schick: 1979: Set in Greyhawk. Ranked 9th greatest adventure of all time. Official download of 3.5 Ed. revision "Official download of Outside the Mountain web enhancement". Archived from the original on November 3, 2012: S3 9033

7. Master boot record - Wikipedia

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   A master boot record ( MBR) is a type of boot sector in the first few blocks of partitioned computer mass storage devices like fixed disks or removable drives intended for use with IBM PC-compatible systems and beyond. The concept of MBRs was publicly introduced in 1983 with PC DOS 2.0 . The MBR holds the information on how the disc's sectors ...

8. Advanced Disc Filing System - Wikipedia

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   The Advanced Disc Filing System (ADFS) is a computing file system unique to the Acorn computer range and RISC OS-based successors.Initially based on the rare Acorn Winchester Filing System, it was renamed to the Advanced Disc Filing System when support for floppy discs was added (using a WD1770 floppy disc controller) and on later 32-bit systems a variant of a PC-style floppy controller.

9. Volume Table of Contents - Wikipedia

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   Volume Table of Contents. In the IBM System/360 [note 1] storage architecture, the Volume Table of Contents ( VTOC ), is a data structure that provides a way of locating the data sets that reside on a particular DASD volume. With the exception of the IBM Z compatible disk layout [1] [note 2] in Linux on Z, [2] it is the functional equivalent of ...