| Subject | English | Italian |
| comp., MS | boot partition | partizione di avvio (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 | partition boot sector | settore di avvio della partizione (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) |