On Mon, 04 Aug 2014 10:46:04 -0400, FromTheRafters 
wrote:

> Virus Guy wrote on 8/4/2014 :
> Isn't a Microsoft Word document a file?

Yes

> Is a bootsector a file?

No. It's the first sector of the drive being booted from, though
many boot loaders will also use additional sectors, up to the 64th
sector, as that was the standard location for starting the first
partition on old ata hard drives.

> Is BIOS a file?

No. It's usually an eprom chip on the motherboard, that is used
during startup to find the hard drive to boot from, and then load
the boots ector from that drive, and then transfer control to the
code from that boot sector. I say usually, as some older mother
boards used a prom, so a bios update required replacing the chip.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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