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Difference beetween bootable disk and burned disk
- Thread starter electricsnake
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Someone Somewhere
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A bootable disc has flags in the partition table set, that tell the system where the bits to boot from are. That's a bit of an oversimplification, though.
All bootable discs have been burned (because that's how you write to them), but not all burned discs are bootable.
All bootable discs have been burned (because that's how you write to them), but not all burned discs are bootable.
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No it's not the same, just a burned disk can contain data that needs to be saved or transferred and accessing that data in a computer is done manually by either disk exploration or the operating system giving you the Open Folder to View Files option, and when that same disk is in the optical drive when the machine initially boots up, nothing happens as it does not contain a boot sector.
A bootable disk is written with a boot sector, so it will in most cases auto boot when the computer is started up with the disk in the optical drive, there's a difference between auto run and auto boot.
A disk can have the ability to auto run if you had made a copy of a disk that already had that capability, but most auto boot disks will in some way be affecting the operating system itself by either running diagnostic programs, or various other utilities.
A bootable disk is written with a boot sector, so it will in most cases auto boot when the computer is started up with the disk in the optical drive, there's a difference between auto run and auto boot.
A disk can have the ability to auto run if you had made a copy of a disk that already had that capability, but most auto boot disks will in some way be affecting the operating system itself by either running diagnostic programs, or various other utilities.
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