adjective
- capable of being used to start up a computer system
Usage: computing
Examples
- Make sure the USB drive is bootable before installing the operating system.
- The technician created a bootable disk to repair the corrupted computer.
- This CD is not bootable, so you cannot use it to start the computer.
- The bootable flash drive contains all the necessary system files.
- Check if your computer can recognize the bootable media.
- The old floppy disk is still bootable after all these years.