| English | Maltese |
| boot drive | drajv ta' l-ibbutjar (In a PC-compatible computer, the disk drive that the BIOS uses to automatically load the operating system when the computer is turned on) |
| boot partition | taqsima ta' l-ibbutjar (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) |
| cold boot | butjatura kiesħa (A startup process that begins with turning on the computer's power. Typically, a cold boot involves some basic hardware checking by the system, after which the operating system is loaded from disk into memory) |
| early-launch boot driver | Drajver tal-ibbutjar bi tnedija bikrija (An antimalware driver that loads early in the boot process, to evaluate the safety of the other drivers being loaded. Based on a comparison against historical data for those drivers, the antimalware driver returns information to the kernel, which makes initialization decisions for each driver) |
| master boot code | kodiċi tal-ibbutjar ewlieni (A small amount of executable code contained in the master boot record that scans the partition table for the active partition, finds the starting sector of the active partition, loads a copy of the boot sector from the active partition into memory, and transfers control to the executable code in the boot sector) |
| Measured Boot | Ibbutjar Imkejjel (A feature that validates, signs, and stores boot information in the Trusted Platform Module chip to verify the integrity of the PC) |
| native boot | ftuħ oriġinali (An operating-system installation and configuration that uses a virtual hard disk as the running operating system. There is no host operating system or hypervisor in a native-boot configuration) |
| pre-boot | qabel il-ftuħ (Before Windows loads) |
| Trusted Boot | Ftuħ Fdat (A customized process that identifies and fixes potential problems during PC startup) |
| warm boot | ristartjatura (The restarting of a running computer without first turning off the power) |
