(e) A Description of the Boot Process

The first action after turn on the PC it's take it from the BIOS that is the system that manage the basic input output on the computer, it's turn on the monitor and the keyboard to check after the memory RAM, after that it checks the information of the peripheries in a predefine order (recorder in a small memory ROM) until find in one of them generally the hard drive a operative system to run it, to do this the hard drive has a small area call of 512 bytes Master Boot Record (MBR) on this area there is a especial "file" that has the order to read the hard drive with the partitions table, after select the partition that its going to start the process its repeat for the partition to actually start the operative system itself.