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| internal hd | Internal hard disk. Data storage device which allows access to blocks of data on demand and is installed as part of the standard hardware package for a computers. |
| external hd | External hard disk. External interface used to connect removable, portable disk storage. |
| virtual hd | Virtual hard disk. It is an image format that replicates the contents of a hard drive, with all the data and strutural elements of the drive, but is accessed and installed in a virtual machine infrastructure |
| logical disk | Virtual device that provides an area of usable storage capacity on one or more physical disk drive(s) in a computer system. |
| partition style | how data is organized on disk drives |
| mbr | It contains code to start the load process for an operating system from a partition or volume on the disk, a partition table to indicate what space has been reserved as partitions, and a signature sequence of bytes used to identify the disk to the operating system |
| gpt | guid partition table |
| basic disk | default setup for new hard disk added to computer in Windows |
| dynamic disk | organizes blocks of space in volumes instead of partitions. |
| volumes | will add later from the book sequence |
| storage spaces | will add later from the book sequence |
| disk management | will add later from the book sequence |
| disk part | will add later from the book sequence |
| fat | will add later from the book sequence |
| ntfs | will add later from the book sequence |
| ReFS | will add later from the book sequence |
| UDF | will add later from the book sequence |
| volume mount points | will add later from the book sequence |
| file attributes | will add later from the book sequence |
| permissions | will add later from the book sequence |
