Week 7: Clear

We'll, it's the end of week seven and I'm still hanging in there. This weeks lecture was easier for me to understand, even if my quiz grade of 80 doesn't back that up. The topic that was clearest to me was that of booting a computer. I new the basics of how a computer cranked up but now I really feel like I understand it very well.

The first thing that happens when you turn the computer on is that the computer runs code from the BIOS, which is interesting to me since I have messed with setting in the BIOS so many times and never realized how basic it was to the functioning of the computer. The other interesting thing was how the MBR holds such vital information, which would explain why I had such difficulties years ago when one of my computers had a corrupted MBR.

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