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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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You cannot follow the procedure in that discussion unless you have a few

drives to erase.

Bootable Media

Imagine you’ve built a brand-new PC. The hard drive has no OS, so you need

to boot up something to set up that hard drive. Any software that can boot up

a system is by definition an operating system. You need an optical disc or

USB flash drive with a bootable OS installed. Any removable media that has

a bootable OS is generically called a boot device or boot disc. Your system

boots off of the boot device, which then loads some kind of OS that enables

you to partition, format, and install an OS on your new hard drive. Boot

devices come from many sources. All Windows OS installation media are

boot devices (see Figure 9-26), as are Linux installation media.

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