| Subject | English | German |
| comp. | boot sector | Bootsektor |
| gen. | boot sector | Startsektor |
| comp., MS | boot sector | Startsektor (A critical disk structure for starting your computer, located at sector 1 of each volume or floppy disk. It contains executable code and data that is required by the code, including information used by the file system to access the volume. The boot sector is created when your format the volume) |
| comp. | boot sector | urlader Sektor |
| 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) |