Booting means, to start a
computer system and prepare the machine as live, interactive and usable to
operator. A PC boot itself by executing the “Boot Strap” loader (Firmware)
present in ROM on the Motherboard. In this process, Power-On Self Test (POST)
is performed to make sure that the motherboard, input, output and i/o (BIOS)
resources are good and in working condition. Then, it calls actual booting,
i.e. loading OS from boot-source (Floppy/HDD/CD-ROM etc) as instructed from
CMOS setup utility. Booting process is either started by system switch-on from
electrical mains or pressing “Ctrl+Alt+Del”
key combination – known as “Hardboot” and “Softboot” respectively.
The difference between
hard-boot and soft-boot is that, POST is not executed in Soft-boot and only the
new OS is reloaded in primary memory (RAM).
Windows XP Advance (Boot)
Options Menu
It is one major and very
much useful feature to enable the repairing and booting of system even if the
OS is damaged on the media. In this menu we can select different options
related to booting and system startup trouble. For trouble-shooting the failed
booting process we must understand given options.
1.Safe Mode: This mode of
booting loads the operating system keeping most and advanced device drivers
not-loaded. In this way, operator can find and solve the problem such as
Invalid Hardware, Crashed Software and Wrong Device drive etc.
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