| English | Spanish |
| available hard disk space | espacio disponible en disco duro (Memory that is not allocated to any program) |
| differencing virtual hard disk | disco duro virtual de diferenciación (" 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.") |
| dynamically expanding virtual hard disk | disco duro virtual de expansión dinámica (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 | Asistente para editar discos duros virtuales (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 | disco duro virtual de tamaño fijo (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) |
| hard affinity | afinidad forzada (A mechanism by which a thread can only run on a fixed set of one or more processors) |
| hard booking | reserva en firme (A project booking that commits a resource to a project or activity, usually for a specified period of time on a project schedule) |
| hard-coding | codificado de forma rígida (The process of putting string or character literals in the main body of code, instead of in external resource files) |
| hard copy | copia impresa (Printed output on paper, film, or other permanent medium) |
| hard delete | eliminación permanente (The process of permanently removing an item from the store or moving it to the dumpster when dumpster functionality is enabled. The dumpster is enabled/disabled by means of a registry setting on the computer running Exchange) |
| hard disk | disco duro (An inflexible platter coated with material in which data can be recorded magnetically with read/write heads) |
| hard disk drive | unidad de disco duro (A hardware device, or a logical partition of it, that reads data from and writes data to hard disks) |
| hard link | vínculo físico (A directory entry for a file) |
| hard mount | montaje forzado (The processes during which an NFS client will infinitely try to mount a file system to make it available for access. NFS clients which hard mount a file system could encounter problems if the NFS server becomes unavailable) |
| hard page-break renderer | representador de saltos de página manuales (A rendering extension that maintains the report layout and formatting so that the resulting file is optimized for a consistent printing experience, or to view the report online in a book format) |
| hard quota | cuota máxima (A quota that prevents users from saving files after the space limit is reached, and generates notifications when the volume of data reaches each configured threshold) |
| hard reset | restablecimiento completo (A type of reset on a mobile device that clears all installed software and restores the device to its original factory configuration) |
| Hard Rock | Rock duro (One of the music genres that appears under Genre classification in Windows Media Player library. Based on ID3 standard tagging format for MP3 audio files. ID3v1 genre ID 79) |
| hybrid hard disk | disco duro híbrido (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) |
| linked virtual hard disk | disco duro virtual vinculado (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) |
| New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard | Asistente para crear discos rígidos virtuales (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) |
| virtual hard disk | disco duro virtual (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) |
