Definition of Bootable

1. Adjective. (computing) (context: of a disk, etc.) That can be booted; from which one can boot the system. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bootable

1. boot [adj] - See also: boot

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bootable

boot camp
boot camps
boot cut
boot disk
boot disks
boot knife
boot loader
boot loaders
boot maker
boot out
boot sale
boot sector
boot up
boot verb
bootability
bootable (current term)
bootblack
bootblacked
bootblacking
bootblacks
bootboys
bootdisk
bootdisks
booted armillaria
booted up
bootee
bootees
booteries
bootery

Literary usage of Bootable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Defend Your Data!: Guide to Data Recovery by David J. Stang (1991)
"3 Partition selected is not bootable, active partition not changed. ... 3 The only bootable partition on Drive 1 is already marked active. ..."

2. The Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center by Dorian J. Cougias, E. L. Heiberger, Karsten Koop (2003)
"The only bootable options are those that are known to the BIOS of your PC3. Depending on the way your PC is equipped, you'll probably find the following ..."

3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1897)
"bootable Waters.—The legal definition of this term was fixed by a decision rendered in ... Waters that are not bootable may be held for private preserves; ..."

4. Computer Virus Survival Guide by David Stang (1991)
"boot record if they were not bootable. It turns out that the DOS FORMAT ... How does a boot sector virus get from a non-bootable floppy to a hard disk? ..."

5. Executive Guide to Computer Viruses by Charles Ritstein (1992)
"With Norton Utilities 4.5: 2. Type "NDD" to load the Norton Disk Doctor. 3. Select "Make Disk bootable". 4. Select the disk that is infected. ..."

6. Deptford.TV Diaries by , deptford.tv (2006)
"(Jaromil 2000) The Lab develops Dyne:Bolic, a bootable GNU/Linux system, Jaromil came ... Today the bootable Dyne:Bolic CD is a complete multimedia system. ..."

7. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"MB. MATTHEW ARNOLD (à ¡a mode d Oscar) has ordered a " lecturing-euit " of the new grey colour called''London Smoke." bootable. THE SIGH OF THE STOCKBROKER. ..."

8. Defend Your Data!: Guide to Data Recovery by David J. Stang (1991)
"3 Partition selected is not bootable, active partition not changed. ... 3 The only bootable partition on Drive 1 is already marked active. ..."

9. The Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center by Dorian J. Cougias, E. L. Heiberger, Karsten Koop (2003)
"The only bootable options are those that are known to the BIOS of your PC3. Depending on the way your PC is equipped, you'll probably find the following ..."

10. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1897)
"bootable Waters.—The legal definition of this term was fixed by a decision rendered in ... Waters that are not bootable may be held for private preserves; ..."

11. Computer Virus Survival Guide by David Stang (1991)
"boot record if they were not bootable. It turns out that the DOS FORMAT ... How does a boot sector virus get from a non-bootable floppy to a hard disk? ..."

12. Executive Guide to Computer Viruses by Charles Ritstein (1992)
"With Norton Utilities 4.5: 2. Type "NDD" to load the Norton Disk Doctor. 3. Select "Make Disk bootable". 4. Select the disk that is infected. ..."

13. Deptford.TV Diaries by , deptford.tv (2006)
"(Jaromil 2000) The Lab develops Dyne:Bolic, a bootable GNU/Linux system, Jaromil came ... Today the bootable Dyne:Bolic CD is a complete multimedia system. ..."

14. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"MB. MATTHEW ARNOLD (à ¡a mode d Oscar) has ordered a " lecturing-euit " of the new grey colour called''London Smoke." bootable. THE SIGH OF THE STOCKBROKER. ..."

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