If you plan to startup a suspect’s computer, you must modify the ___________ to ensure that you do not contaminate or alter data on the suspect’s hard drive by booting to the hard drive.
A.
deltree command
B.
CMOS
C.
Boot.sys
D.
Scandisk utility
I believe the correct answer should be B. The CMOS determines what physical hard drive the machine will boot to. In BIOS based systems the BIOS uses its boot order to scan partitions, one by one, for the MBR. Yeah I know… I have seen this question on all the other dumps too and just assumed boot.sys. I did some research and could not find anything called boot.sys. There is a NTbootdd.sys and a boot.ini but I found no reference to a file called boot.sys.
Please someone educate me if I am not correct.
CMOS is the right ans
BOOT.SYS takes control of your CONFIG.SYS file. It passes some commands on to DOS for processing and hides other commands from DOS. While it has control of your configuration file, BOOT.SYS can display menus, wait for user input, examine your computer’s configuration, and perform other tests. It can also create environment variables during CONFIG.SYS processing in all versions of DOS.
CMOS is the right answer!