| Italian | English |
| settore danneggiato | bad sector (A disk sector that cannot be used for data storage, usually because of media damage or imperfections. Finding, marking, and avoiding bad sectors on a disk is one of the many tasks performed by a computer's operating system. A disk-formatting utility can also find and mark the bad sectors on a disk) |
| settore di avvio | boot sector (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) |
| settore di avvio della partizione | partition boot sector (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) |
| virus del settore di avvio | boot sector virus (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) |
