| 11. | On Macintosh computers based on Apple Intel architecture, the EFI system partition is initially left blank and unused for booting.
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| 12. | IIRC, Microsoft doesn't even try to stop you mounting the system partition like they do with recovery partition.
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| 13. | For UEFI boot, the file is located at \ EFI \ Microsoft \ Boot \ BCD on the EFI System Partition.
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| 14. | The operating system also maintains system partitions so several users can have access to separate parts of the system for different applications.
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| 15. | Furthermore it will allow you to reformat your system partitions without losing your data, in the event of system crash or update.
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| 16. | This is because HTC had been unable to fit both Gingerbread and HTC Sense together in the phone's 250 MB system partition.
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| 17. | For instance, while TrueCrypt uses 1000 iterations of the PBKDF2-RIPEMD160 algorithm for system partitions, VeraCrypt uses 327, 661 iterations.
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| 18. | If the number of the system partition changes, it requires boot loader reconfiguration in order for an operating system to boot and function properly.
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| 19. | Norton Partition Magic if you have it is great for this sort of thing, as you cannot change the system partition inside of Windows.
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| 20. | Both GPT-and MBR-partitioned disks can contain an EFI system partition, as UEFI firmware is required to support both partitioning schemes.
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