| Subject | English | German |
| comp., MS | available hard disk space | verfügbarer Speicherplatz auf der Festplatte (Memory that is not allocated to any program) |
| comp., MS | Edit Virtual Hard Disk Wizard | Assistent zum Bearbeiten virtueller Festplatten (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) |
| comp. | hard disk controller | Festplatten-Controller |
| phys. | hard disk controller | Festplattencontroller |
| tech. | hard disk controller | Festplattensteuerung |
| comp. | hard disk controller | Festplattensteuereinheit |
| busin., IT | hard disk drive | Festplattenlaufwerk (nicht wechselbares) |
| comp., MS | hard disk drive | Festplattenlaufwerk (A hardware device, or a logical partition of it, that reads data from and writes data to hard disks) |
| tech. | hard disk drive | Festplatteneinheit |
| comp., MS | hard disk drive | Festplatte (A hardware device, or a logical partition of it, that reads data from and writes data to hard disks) |
| comp., MS | hard disk drive | Festplattenlaufwerk (A hardware device, or a logical partition of it, that reads data from and writes data to hard disks) |
| comp. | hard disk drive | Festplattenlaufwerk |
| comp. | hard disk partition | Partition |
| comp. | hard disk partition | Festplattenbereich |
| IT | hard disk storage | Festplattenspeicher |
| busin., IT | hard disk storage drive | Festplattenspeicherlaufwerk |
| comp., MS | New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard | Assistent für neue virtuelle Festplatten (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) |