| Subject | English | Portuguese |
| comp., MS, Braz. | boot partition | partição de inicialização (The partition that contains the Windows operating system and its support files. The boot partition can be, but does not have to be, the same as the system partition) |
| comp., MS | boot partition | partição de arranque (The partition that contains the Windows operating system and its support files. The boot partition can be, but does not have to be, the same as the system partition) |
| comp., MS, Braz. | partition boot sector | setor de inicialização da partição (A portion of a hard disk partition that contains information about the disk's file system and a short machine language program that loads the Windows operating system) |
| comp., MS | partition boot sector | setor de arranque da partição (A portion of a hard disk partition that contains information about the disk's file system and a short machine language program that loads the Windows operating system) |