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2. Rufus (software) - Wikipedia

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   Rufus was originally designed [4] as a modern open source replacement for the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool for Windows, [5] which was primarily used to create DOS bootable USB flash drives. The first official release of Rufus, version 1.0.3 (earlier versions were internal/alpha only [6] ), was released on December 04, 2011, with originally ...

3. Windows Boot Manager - Wikipedia

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   The Windows Boot Manager ( BOOTMGR) is the bootloader provided by Microsoft for Windows NT versions starting with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. It is the first program launched by the BIOS or UEFI of the computer and is responsible for loading the rest of Windows. [1] It replaced the NTLDR present in older versions of Windows.

4. EasyBCD - Wikipedia

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   EasyBCD is a program developed by NeoSmart Technologies to configure and tweak the Boot Configuration Data (BCD), a boot database first introduced in Windows Vista and used in all subsequent Windows releases. EasyBCD can be used to set up multi-boot environments for computers on which some versions of Windows, Linux, BSD and Mac OS X can be ...

5. Universal USB Installer - Wikipedia

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   Universal USB Installer ( UUI) is an open-source live Linux USB flash drive creation software. It allows users to create a bootable live USB flash drive using an ISO image from a supported Linux distribution, antivirus utility, system tool, or Microsoft Windows installer. The USB boot software can also be used to make Windows 8, 10, or 11 run ...

6. Windows Preinstallation Environment - Wikipedia

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   Windows Preinstallation Environment (also known as Windows PE and WinPE) is a lightweight version of Windows used for the deployment of PCs, workstations, and servers, or troubleshooting an operating system while it is offline. It is intended to replace MS-DOS boot disks and can be booted via USB flash drive, PXE, iPXE, [1] CD, DVD, or hard ...

7. Ghost (disk utility) - Wikipedia

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   Ghost (disk utility) GHOST (an acronym for general hardware-oriented system transfer [4] ), now Symantec ™ GHOST Solution Suite (GSS) [5] for enterprise, is a disk cloning and backup tool originally developed by Murray Haszard in 1995 for Binary Research. The technology was acquired in 1998 by Symantec .

8. Windows 10 - Wikipedia

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   Windows 10 is the final version of Windows that supports 32-bit processors ( IA-32 and ARMv7-based) and devices with BIOS firmware. Its successor, Windows 11, requires a device that uses UEFI firmware and a 64-bit processor in any supported architecture ( x86-64 for x86 and ARMv8 for ARM).

9. Booting process of Windows - Wikipedia

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   In Windows NT, the booting process is initiated by NTLDR in versions before Vista and the Windows Boot Manager in Vista and later. [4] The boot loader is responsible for accessing the file system on the boot drive, starting ntoskrnl.exe, and loading boot-time device drivers into memory. Once all the boot and system drivers have been loaded, the ...