Definition: Winchester Disk


Former code name for an early IBM hard disk model, sometimes still used to refer to the technology and design of most traditional hard drives.




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Primary Partition

The partition where the operating system files are stored. To start your operating system from a hard disk, it must have a primary partition. You must also make the primary partition active.

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