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2. Rufus (software) - Wikipedia

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   Rufus supports a variety of bootable .iso files, including various Linux distributions and Windows installation .iso files, as well as raw disk image files (including compressed ones). If needed, it will install a bootloader such as SYSLINUX or GRUB onto the flash drive to render it bootable.

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. Ghost (disk utility) - Wikipedia

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   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 . The backup and recovery functionality was replaced by ...

5. Windows 10 version history - Wikipedia

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   Windows 10 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft.Microsoft described Windows 10 as an "operating system as a service" that would receive ongoing updates to its features and functionality, augmented with the ability for enterprise environments to receive non-critical updates at a slower pace or use long-term support milestones that will only receive ...

6. Windows Imaging Format - Wikipedia

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   Developed by. Microsoft. Type of format. Disk image. The Windows Imaging Format ( WIM) is a file -based disk image format. It was developed by Microsoft to help deploy Windows Vista and subsequent versions of the Windows operating system family, as well as Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs. [3]

7. 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).

8. 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 ...

9. Boot image - Wikipedia

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   A boot image is a type of disk image (a computer file containing the complete contents and structure of a storage medium). When it is transferred onto a boot device it allows the associated hardware to boot. The boot image usually includes the operating system, utilities and diagnostics, as well as boot and data recovery information. It also ...