NTLDR is launched by the volume boot record of system partition, which is typically written to the disk by the Windows FORMAT or SYS command.
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After Windows 7, however, Windows Setup creates, by default, a separate system partition that is not given an identifier and therefore is hidden.
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The previous system partition is kept as a backup in case of update failure, and to serve as the " offline " partition for the next update.
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EFI firmware is instead capable of directly understanding the GPT partitioning scheme and the FAT filesystem format, and loads and runs programs held as files in the EFI System partition.
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Once loaded by a UEFI firmware, they both can access and boot kernel images from all devices, partitions and file systems they support, without being limited to the EFI system partition.
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If a Windows 7 + installer is booted in U / EFI mode, then Windows will want to install to the ESP ( EFI System Partition ), a hidden FAT32 formatted boot partition.
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The globally unique identifier ( GUID ) for the EFI system partition in the GUID Partition Table ( GPT ) scheme is, while its ID in the master boot record ( MBR ) partition-table scheme is.
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*First working version of the DiskCryptor was released in November 2007, when there were no plans stated on http : / / www . truecrypt . org / future . php to include system partition encryption feature.
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"' System partition "'and "'boot partition "'are computing terms for disk partitions of a hard disk drive that must exist and be properly configured for a system to operate correctly.
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:So it can be argued, that the advent of the DiskCryptor was an initiative for the TrueCrypt developers, to speed up their development of the system partition encryption feature, and announce that on their future plan page.
