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What is a boot sector of a hard drive?

April 26, 2017boot sector

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What is a boot sector of a hard drive?

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Your hard drive is split into small sectors and the first of these is the boot sector. It is the most important and is obviously accessed first when the computer first boots up. If your hard drive is not partitioned it will have a Volume Boot Record.