| Subject | English | French |
| comp., MS | boot sector | secteur de démarrage (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 | secteur amorçage |
| IT | boot sector virus | virus "système" |
| comp., MS | boot sector virus | virus de secteur de démarrage (A virus that infects computer systems by copying code either to the boot sector on a floppy disk or the partition table on a hard disk. During startup, the virus is loaded into memory. Once in memory, the virus will infect any non-infected disks accessed by the system) |
| 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) |