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общая лексика
загрузочный диск
жесткий диск (или дискета), с которого производится загрузка или перезагрузка ядра операционной системы. Загрузка бездисковых рабочих станций может производиться с удаленного компьютера
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общая лексика
системный диск
Жёсткий диск (или дискета), с которого загружается операционная система при включении (перезапуске) компьютера
синоним
A boot disk is a removable digital data storage medium from which a computer can load and run (boot) an operating system or utility program. The computer must have a built-in program which will load and execute a program from a boot disk meeting certain standards.
While almost all modern computers can boot from a hard drive containing the operating system and other software, they would not normally be called boot disks (because they are not removable media). CD-ROMs are the most common forms of media used, but other media, such as magnetic or paper tape drives, ZIP drives, and more recently USB flash drives can be used. The computer's BIOS must support booting from the device in question.
One can make one's own boot disk (typically done to prepare for when the system won't start properly).