| Subject | English | French |
| comp., MS | boot partition | partition de démarrage (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 | partition de démarrage (of a disk) |
| comp., MS | partition boot sector | secteur de démarrage de partition (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) |