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OCR: BOOT 5-31 peol Ope rating ste m How does the computer load the operating system into RAM? After su cce ssfully com- pleting the POST the computer continues to follow the instructions n ROM to load the operating system as shown r Fiqure 5-31 Figure 5-31 The see if it computer conta tains fir st checks If there A to Loading the Ifthe computer finds this drive becomes the operating disk in drive that drive systerm becomes the default drive default drive The computer uses the default drive tor the rest of the computing session unless you specify different one there is no in but the computer has drive c the computer uses drive as the default drive your computer has hard you genera want drive to be the default drive so best not to put disks in any the floppy disk drives until the boot process co ...