| Subject | English | German |
| comp. | boot partition | Boot-Partition (of a disk) |
| comp., MS | boot partition | Startpartition (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. | boot partition | Boot-Zerlegung (of a disk) |
| comp., MS | partition boot sector | Partitionsstartsektor (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) |