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A boot sector is an area of hard disk which stores code to locate and invoke the booting programs. These booting programs are stored in some other portion of the disk. This code is generally used for loading operating systems.

Disk partitioning is often required by users who want to efficiently manage their operating system files, program files, and user data. In addition to increasing the system performance, it allows the users to go for multi-boot setups. But people often confuse on what tool to use and which partitioning scheme to employ.

In the Windows systems, the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) is the file that acts as a abstraction layer between the hardware components and the software applications.

Master File Table (or MFT) is a crucial system meta-data file of NTFS file system which stores information, such as file name, permissions, contents etc. of all the files present on the NTFS volume. It is basically a database table which acts like a base or staring point for the whole NTFS volume.

Sometimes, upgrading of the system to Windows XP results in data loss situations. Like, numerous attempts to start the system remains unsuccessful. Have you ever tried to find out the reason for such behavior.

Windows 7 operating system has brought several significant changes to the earlier versions of Windows. It has made simple for the users to efficiently organize their everyday tasks by making the interface look more attractive and lively this time. Various other features, such as support for virtual hard disks, improved processor performance, kernel improvements have been added to ensure a better reliability and user experience.

This is a problem with the NTFS partition of your computer. After you recieve the error message, you are unable to start your system any more, hence unable to access any of your data in the computer.

Computer users are most frequently struck by several Blue Screen of Death (or BSODs) while working on their PCs running Windows 7 operating system. These are commonly known as STOP errors. The occurrence of these errors results in a sudden unresponsive behavior of the system. A system crash is one of the possible repercussions of such a behavior.

Windows 7 registry is a repository which stores the configuration information of all the hardware and software installed on your system. Windows uses the registry file while creating or deleting user profiles, installing new software applications, checking the configuration of installed drivers etc.

Sometimes, while trying to upgrade your current Windows operating system to a higher version, the system denies to install. You may encounter such a problem in the middle of the installation process because of any file system corruption, incompatible BIOS settings or bad media etc.