Tuesday, January 29, 2013

What is Booting?



Booting is actually the process of loading an operating system in your computer. There are various operating system for computer like windows operating system, Mac and Linux.  To install each operating system it is necessary to boot and install it from CD or DVD. The main reason of booting is the installation of new operating system or you can also repair the already existed operating system.

When you start your computer system firstly it goes through Power on Self Test mode to confirm that all the basic system of computer is working, that is responsible to handle the booting of operating system. BIOS stand for basic input output system which includes the set of basic software programs and have command over all the hardware functions. If you want to make changes in hardware then it is necessary to change the setting of BIOS.

The booting process of your computer setup is handled by BIOS of your computer setup through the boot loader program that is already installed in it. It has an particular boot order according to which it boots the operating system. Almost all computer have default setting to boot DVD ROM first as the booting device and in case you have not this setting then you have to change the setting of BIOS in order to change the booting order.

So above are the description of booting is defined that how booting process and if you have any kind of problem in understanding then go at computer repair technician.

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