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Boot Record
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The first sector of a floppy disk or logical drive in a partition. Contains information about the disk or logical drive.
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Master Boot Record (MBR)
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The first sector on a hard drive, which contains the partition table and a program the BIOS uses to boot an OS from the drive.
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Booting
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Computer bringing itself up to a working state without the user having to do anything
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Cold Boot
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Restarting the computer by turning off the power or by pressing the reset button
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Material Safety Data Sheet(MSDS)
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A document that explains how to properly handle substances such as chemical solvents; it includes information such as physical data, toxicity, health effects, first aid, storage, disposal, and spill procedures.
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Command.com
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One of the three files that are the core components of the real-mode portion of windows 9x/Me...provides a command prompt and interprets commands
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Diagnostic card
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Adapter cards designed to discover and report computer errors and conflicts at POST time
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Dual inline package switch
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A switch on a circuit board or other device that can be set on or off to hold configuration or setup information
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Electrostatic Discharge
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Another name for static electricity, which can damage chips and destroy motherboards
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Ground bracelet
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A strap you wear around your wrist that is attached to the computer case, ground mat, or another ground so that ESD is discharged from your body before you touch sensitive components inside the computer
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Hard boot
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Restarting the computer by turning off the power or by pressing the reset button
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Msdos.sys
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A file text that contains settings used by io.sys during booting.
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Io.sys
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One of the three files that are the core components of the real mode portion of Windows 9x/Me. It is the first program file of the OS
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Ntldr
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The OS loader used on intel systems.
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Loop-back plug
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Used to test a serial, parallel, USB, network, or other port
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