| English | French |
| available disk space | espace disque disponible (Memory that is not allocated to any program) |
| available disks | disques disponibles (A storage pool that exposes physical disks that are currently available for inclusion in a storage pool on a particular storage subsystem) |
| available hard disk space | espace disque disponible (Memory that is not allocated to any program) |
| basic disk | disque de base (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) |
| cluster disk resource | ressource disque de cluster (A disk on a cluster storage device) |
| differencing virtual hard disk | disque dur virtuel de différenciation (" 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.") |
| digital video disk | disque vidéo numérique (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) |
| disk access time | temps d'accès au disque (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) |
| disk arbitration | arbitrage disque (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) |
| disk-based web site | site Web sur disque (A web site hosted on a local computer) |
| disk bottleneck | goulot d'étranglement du disque (A condition that occurs when disk performance is reduced to the extent that overall system performance is affected) |
| disk configuration information | informations sur la configuration du disque (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) |
| disk drive | lecteur de disque (A hardware device that reads data from and writes data to floppy disks) |
| disk duplication | duplication de disques (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) |
| disk extent | étendue du disque (A contiguous run of sectors on one disk) |
| disk partition | partition de disque (A section of space on a physical disk that functions as if it were a separate disk) |
| disk space | espace disque (The amount of data that can be stored on a disk, usually measured in bytes) |
| Disk Utilization report | rapport sur l'utilisation du disque (A DPS report that provides statistics on disk capacity, allocation, usage, and availability) |
| double density disk | disquette à double densité (A disk created to hold data at twice the density (bits per inch) of a previous generation of disks. Early IBM PC floppy disks held 180 KB of data. Double-density disks increased that capacity to 360 KB. Double-density disks use modified frequency modulation encoding for storing data) |
| double-density disk | disquette à double densité (A disk created to hold data at twice the density (bits per inch) of a previous generation of disks. Early IBM PC floppy disks held 180 KB of data. Double-density disks increased that capacity to 360 KB. Double-density disks use modified frequency modulation encoding for storing data) |
| dynamic disk | disque dynamique (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) |
| Dynamic Disk Fair Share | Répartition dynamique de charge de disque équilibrée (A feature that prevents sessions from over-utilizing disk usage by equal distribution of disk I/O among sessions) |
| dynamically expanding virtual hard disk | disque dur virtuel de taille dynamique (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) |
| Edit Virtual Hard Disk Wizard | Assistant Modification de disque dur virtuel (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) |
| fixed-size virtual hard disk | disque dur virtuel de taille fixe (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) |
| floppy disk | disquette (A reusable magnetic storage medium. The floppy disk used today is the rigid 3.5-inch microfloppy that holds 1.44 MB. It is called floppy because the first varieties were housed in bendable jackets) |
| floppy disk drive | lecteur de disquette (A hardware device that reads data from and writes data to floppy disks) |
| hard disk | disque dur (An inflexible platter coated with material in which data can be recorded magnetically with read/write heads) |
| hard disk drive | lecteur de disque dur (A hardware device, or a logical partition of it, that reads data from and writes data to hard disks) |
| hybrid disk | disque hybride (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) |
| hybrid hard disk | disque dur hybride (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) |
| leaf disk | disque feuille (The last disk in a chain with no child disks attached to it) |
| linked virtual hard disk | disque dur virtuel lié (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) |
| MBR disk | disque MBR (A disk that uses the master boot record (MBR) partition style) |
| New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard | Assistant Nouveau disque dur virtuel (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) |
| physical disk resource | ressource Disque physique (A disk on a cluster storage device. Physical disks are supported as cluster resources by a Resource DLL) |
| Primary disk | disque principal (The hard disk drive that contains the system and boot partitions used to start Windows) |
| quorum disk | disque quorum (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) |
| Redundant Array of Independent Disks | technologie RAID (A mechanism for storing identical data on multiple disks for redundancy, improved performance, and increased mean time between failures (MTBF). RAID provides fault tolerance and appears to the operating system as a single logical drive) |
| unallocated disk space | espace disque non alloué (Any unpartitioned and unformatted space on a hard disk) |
| virtual disk | disque virtuel (A collection of one or more physical disks from a previously created storage pool) |
| virtual floppy disk | disquette virtuelle (A file-based version of a physical floppy disk. A virtual floppy disk is stored as a file with a .vfd file name extension) |
| virtual hard disk | disque dur virtuel (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) |
| Windows Disk Diagnostic | Diagnostics des disques Windows (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) |
| Windows Disk Protection | Protection des disques Windows (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) |
| witness disk | disque témoin (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) |
| zero power optical disk drive | lecteur de disque optique à consommation nulle (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) |