boot partition

The other disk-related thing that stuck out at me is the boot partition.

This boot partition is normally hidden from the Windows Vista/7 user.

The system partition can be different from the boot partition, although they are often the same partition (drive C:).

Every OS (boot partition) has an icon, label and, if needed, password protection.

In Microsoft Windows's descriptions, the system partition and boot partition refer to:

The BIOS Boot partition is typically quite small.

The following utilities are known to support BIOS Boot partitions:

The configuration file can include data such as boot partition and kernel pathname for each, as well as customized options if needed.

Could Evercookie be storing information, let's say on somewhere not part of the image, on the boot partition or on a D: drive?

A BIOS Boot partition can be created using any of several different disk utilities:

Definition of System and Boot Partition (NT)

Transparently encrypt entire partitions or volumes together with pre-boot authentication for encrypted boot partitions.

A small, generally ext3 or FAT-formatted, partition on a local disk (a boot partition)

NTLDR requires, at the minimum, the following two files to be on the system partition and boot partition:

BIOS Boot partitions are used primarily by GRUB 2.

For Vista and Windows 7, a small 100 megabyte boot partition is created for storing bootloader data separate from the rest of the system partition.

Linux you can encrypt non boot partitions and usb cards / flash cards or hidden encrypted containers.

Overall, they look like solid upgrades but I'm a little disappointed the rumors of an SSD boot partition for the system didn't pan out.

Extra DOS partitions could not be used as boot partitions, because the installable device drivers were loaded (in config.sys)

The version for Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP can encrypt the boot partition or entire boot drive.

For hard disk drive booting the Open Firmware requires an RDB boot partition that contains either an affs1 or ext2 partition.

The boot partition is the disk partition , primary or logical , that contains the Windows operating system files and its support files, but not any files responsible for booting.

It can be as small as about 30 KiB; however, future boot loaders might require more space, so creating a larger BIOS Boot partition is advisable.

Both GRUB and LILO, in fact I think any bootloader in Linux can live on the boot partition, not on the master boot record.

On GPT disks, no equivalent space exists, and the BIOS Boot partition is a way to officially allocate such space for use by the boot loader.