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What makes a bootable device bootable

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Possible Duplicate: What makes bootable media bootable? As far as I believe, if you 'drag and drop' an ISO image onto a device such as a usb or cd it won't boot as It's just random files, the BIOS doesn't know It's bootable. What makes a device bootable to the BIOS; how do you flag a device bootabl…

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Actually there are some details involved with the process. To boot-up a device, it must be formated with a partition that begins with a specific code on the first sectors, these partition area are called MBR. A Master Boot Record (MBR) is the bootse…

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