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By putting its code in the boot sector, a virus can guarantee it's executed.

This is analogous to the boot sector of a hard disk.

The command can be applied to hard drives and floppy disks to repair or create a boot sector.

The real boot sector is moved to another sector and marked as bad.

The boot sector can sometimes be recreated more easily than saving it.

Ontario.2048 does contain a boot sector within it with a boot virus.

And so it is this altered boot sector which gets control as the system boots before Windows does.

It looks just like a hard drive with a boot sector.

Surely Win8 doesn't keep the private portion of the "encrypt the boot sector" in memory.

I ask because in any Windows installation the boot sector of the hard drive is always a constant.