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Definition: disk image


A file that contains a copy of a hard drive or solid state drive (SSD). A disk image is used to create a virtual hard drive for a virtual machine implementation, as a boot disk to boot the computer from another operating system or as a way to copy the entire contents of a drive to another machine. See ISO image, virtual hard drive and cloning software.