Meaning

1 senses
  1. 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.

    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.

    Bootsektor

    загрузочный секторzagruzočnyj sektor

Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
segment of a storage medium that holds data used to boot:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
segment of a storage medium that holds data used to boot:

Origin

From boot + sector.

From boot + sector.

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Forms

plural: boot sectors

Synonyms

2 synonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

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