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Meaning of boot sector | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A dedicated sector, usually at the beginning (first sector on first track) of a storage medium, that holds special data used to start a system.

Equivalents

Deutsch Bootsektor

Français boot sector secteur d’amorçage secteur de boot

Русский загрузочный сектор

Examples

“Some systems use a boot block of several physical sectors, while some use only one boot sector. Other manufacturers use the terms "boot block" and "boot sector" interchangeably.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

boot storm boot time boot tree boot verb boot-black boot-boy