Boot Section
Usually the very first sector of the hard disk is the boot sector regardless of sector size 512 or 4096 bytes.
Boot section. A volume boot record vbr also known as a volume boot sector a partition boot record or a partition boot sector is a type of boot sector introduced by the ibm personal computer it may be found on a partitioned data storage device such as a hard disk or an unpartitioned device such as a floppy disk and contains machine code for bootstrapping programs usually but not necessarily. Partition boot sector is damaged. The boot sector contains some code and data that helps bios hand off control of the startup process to windows.
Helpful if computer has boot problems. Learn how to restore fix rebuild or repair master boot record or mbr in windows 10 8 7 using bootrec exe tool. On personal computers the master boot record uses the partition boot sector on the system partition to load the operating system kernel files.
A boot sector is the sector of a persistent data storage device e g hard disk floppy disk optical disc etc which contains machine code to be loaded into random access memory ram and then executed by a computer system s built in firmware e g the bios das u boot etc.