But a secondary, recovery partition also gets written and may be accessed at boot time to support repair and recovery. The primary and most frequently used of these partitions is the operating system partition. For example, a default Windows OS clean install actually writes two bootable partitions to the drive that’s designated as the install target. It also establishes boot priority and timing when, as is typically the case, a PC can access two or more bootable partitions as it’s starting up. This critical information in the Windows runtime environment tells the Windows boot loader where to look for boot information. In the world of the Windows OS, BCD stands for Boot Configuration Data.
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