| Subject | English | Chinese simplified |
| comp., MS | boot partition | 启动分区 (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 | 分区引导扇区 (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) |