| French | English |
| arbitrage disque | disk arbitration (The process that occurs when the cluster node that owned the quorum resource fails or is unavailable, and the remaining nodes determine which node will take ownership) |
| assainissement de disque | drive sanitation (The forced recovery of a BitLocker-protected volume through the removal of all the key binary large objects (BLOBs) that could have decrypted the disk) |
| Assistant Modification de disque dur virtuel | Edit Virtual Hard Disk Wizard (A wizard that is used by advanced users to perform specific operations on their existing virtual hard disks such as compacting their virtual hard disk, merging it, converting it to another type or expanding its size) |
| Assistant Nouveau disque dur virtuel | New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard (A wizard that is used by advanced users to create custom virtual hard disks for virtual machines. The purpose of the New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard is to gather the basic information from the user necessary to create a new virtual hard disk) |
| Diagnostics des disques Windows | Windows Disk Diagnostic (Feature of Windows that proactively detects impending disk failures and can alert the support center to replace the failing hard disk before total failure occurs. For administrators, this feature will guide them through the process of backing up their data so the hard disk can be replaced without data loss) |
| disque Blu-ray | Blu-ray Disc (A high definition optical disc format which uses a smaller focus blue-violet 405 nm laser allowing higher precision and storage density. A competitor to HD DVD) |
| disque compact | compact disc (An optical storage medium for digital data) |
| disque compact à mémoire en lecture seule | compact disc read-only memory (A form of storage characterized by high capacity (roughly 650 MB) and the use of laser optics instead of magnetic means for reading data) |
| disque compatible multisession | multi session-capable disc (A recordable media to which you can write several times without reformatting) |
| disque de base | basic disk (A physical disk that can be accessed by MS-DOS and all Windows-based operating systems. Basic disks can contain up to four primary partitions, or three primary partitions and an extended partition with multiple logical drives) |
| disque dur | hard disk (An inflexible platter coated with material in which data can be recorded magnetically with read/write heads) |
| disque dur hybride | hybrid hard disk (A hard disk that contains a small amount of solid-state nonvolatile memory which, when used as a cache, can realize significant benefits such as faster booting, extended battery life, and a more rugged PC) |
| disque dur virtuel | virtual hard disk (The storage medium for a virtual machine. It can reside on any storage topology that the host operating system can access, including external devices, storage area networks, and network-attached storage. The file format is .vhd) |
| disque dur virtuel de différenciation | differencing virtual hard disk (" A virtual hard disk that stores the changes or "differences" to an associated parent virtual hard disk for the purpose of keeping the parent intact. The differencing disk is a separate .vhd file that is associated with the .vhd file of the parent disk. Changes continue to accumulate in the differencing disk until it is merged to the parent disk.") |
| disque dur virtuel de taille dynamique | dynamically expanding virtual hard disk (A virtual hard disk that grows in size each time it is modified. This type of virtual hard disk starts as a 3 KB .vhd file and can grow as large as the maximum size specified when the file was created. The only way to reduce the file size is to zero out the deleted data and then compact the virtual hard disk) |
| disque dur virtuel de taille fixe | fixed-size virtual hard disk (A virtual hard disk with a fixed size that is determined and for which all space is allocated when the disk is created. The size of the disk does not change when data is added or deleted) |
| disque dur virtuel lié | linked virtual hard disk (A virtual hard disk that points to and uses an entire physical disk for the purpose of converting a data disk to a virtual hard disk. You cannot turn on a virtual machine if a linked disk is attached to the virtual machine) |
| disque dynamique | dynamic disk (A physical disk that provides features that basic disks do not, such as support for volumes that span multiple disks. Dynamic disks use a hidden database to track information about dynamic volumes on the disk and other dynamic disks in the computer. You convert basic disks to dynamic by using the Disk Management snap-in or the DiskPart command-line tool. When you convert a basic disk to dynamic, all existing basic volumes become dynamic volumes) |
| disque feuille | leaf disk (The last disk in a chain with no child disks attached to it) |
| disque hybride | hybrid drive (A hard disk that contains a small amount of solid-state nonvolatile memory which, when used as a cache, can realize significant benefits such as faster booting, extended battery life, and a more rugged PC) |
| disque hybride | hybrid disk (A hard disk that contains a small amount of solid-state nonvolatile memory which, when used as a cache, can realize significant benefits such as faster booting, extended battery life, and a more rugged PC) |
| disque inscriptible | writeable disc (A CD or DVD disc onto which files can be copied. Common writeable disc types include CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, and DVD-RW) |
| disque MBR | MBR disk (A disk that uses the master boot record (MBR) partition style) |
| disque monosession uniquement | single session-only disc (A recordable media (such as CD-RW) to which you can only write once without reformatting) |
| disque optique | shiny media (A CD or DVD disc onto which files can be copied. Common writeable disc types include CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, and DVD-RW) |
| disque optique non réinscriptible | write once, read many (An optical disc that can be read and reread but cannot be altered after it has been recorded. WORMs are high-capacity storage devices. Because they cannot be erased and rerecorded, they are suited to storing archives and other large bodies of unchanging information) |
| disque principal | Primary disk (The hard disk drive that contains the system and boot partitions used to start Windows) |
| disque quorum | quorum disk (The cluster disk on which configuration data is maintained in the quorum log, cluster database checkpoint, and resource checkpoints. The quorum disk is managed by the quorum resource, which is usually a special kind of physical disk resource) |
| disque SSD | solid-state drive (A primary storage device based on solid-state memory, such as flash memory, that provides nonvolatile storage with benefits of performance, reliability and power saving) |
| disque témoin | witness disk (For a failover cluster, a disk in the cluster storage that is designated to hold a copy of the cluster configuration database. A failover cluster has a witness disk only if this is specified as part of the quorum configuration) |
| disque vidéo numérique | digital video disk (A form of storage characterized by high capacity (roughly 650 MB) and the use of laser optics rather than magnetic means for reading data. Optical disk storage commonly used for audio, video, and computer data. DVDs range in capacity from 4.7 GB to 17 GB, and can store significantly more than a CD-ROM) |
| disque virtuel | virtual disk (A collection of one or more physical disks from a previously created storage pool) |
| disques disponibles | available disks (A storage pool that exposes physical disks that are currently available for inclusion in a storage pool on a particular storage subsystem) |
| duplication de disques | disk duplication (The process of using third-party hardware or software to copy a full master Windows installation onto the hard disks of multiple destination computers. The master computer and destination computers must have compatible hardware abstraction layers (HALs). The destination computer can be delivered directly to customers, or it might require additional processing on the factory production line) |
| espace disque | disk space (The amount of data that can be stored on a disk, usually measured in bytes) |
| espace disque disponible | available hard disk space (Memory that is not allocated to any program) |
| espace disque disponible | available disk space (Memory that is not allocated to any program) |
| espace disque non alloué | unallocated disk space (Any unpartitioned and unformatted space on a hard disk) |
| goulot d'étranglement du disque | disk bottleneck (A condition that occurs when disk performance is reduced to the extent that overall system performance is affected) |
| Graver un disque à partager | Burn a Sharing Disc (A control that initiates burning a disc with selected pictures for sharing) |
| graveur de disque | disc burner (A device used to copy files to recordable CDs and DVDs) |
| informations sur la configuration du disque | disk configuration information (Information in the Windows registry on assigned drive letters, simple volumes, striped volumes, mirrored volumes, spanned volumes, and RAID-5 volumes. You can change the disk configuration by using Disk Management) |
| kit de licence sans disque | medialess license kit (A kit that can be purchased by an end-user to license or activate software) |
| lecteur de disque | disk drive (A hardware device that reads data from and writes data to floppy disks) |
| lecteur de disque dur | hard disk drive (A hardware device, or a logical partition of it, that reads data from and writes data to hard disks) |
| lecteur de disque optique à consommation nulle | zero power optical disk drive (Pertaining to the ability to reduce the power consumption of optical disk drives in the operating system to zero to save energy when the drives are not in use) |
| lecteur de disques compacts | compact disc player (A device that reads the information stored on a compact disc. A compact disc player contains the optical equipment necessary for reading a disc's contents and the electronic circuitry for interpreting the data as it is read) |
| librairie sur disque autonome | stand-alone drive library (A single-drive, non-automated unit, such as a tape drive or CD-ROM drive, that holds a single tape or disc. With this type of library, the user manually inserts a tape or disc into the drives) |
| partition de disque | disk partition (A section of space on a physical disk that functions as if it were a separate disk) |
| Protection des disques Windows | Windows Disk Protection (A feature that helps protect the Windows partition that contains the Windows operating system and other programs from being permanently modified from user session to user session) |
| rapport sur l'utilisation du disque | Disk Utilization report (A DPS report that provides statistics on disk capacity, allocation, usage, and availability) |
| ressource disque de cluster | cluster disk resource (A disk on a cluster storage device) |
| ressource Disque physique | physical disk resource (A disk on a cluster storage device. Physical disks are supported as cluster resources by a Resource DLL) |
| Répartition dynamique de charge de disque équilibrée | Dynamic Disk Fair Share (A feature that prevents sessions from over-utilizing disk usage by equal distribution of disk I/O among sessions) |
| site Web sur disque | disk-based web site (A web site hosted on a local computer) |
| temps d'accès au disque | disk access time (The time needed for a read/write head in a disk drive to locate a track on a disk. Access time is usually measured in milliseconds and is used as a performance measure for hard disks and CD-ROM drives) |
| étendue du disque | disk extent (A contiguous run of sectors on one disk) |
