Address feedback: revert changes to includes, managed-disks-overview, and disks-types lines 197-200; remove bold/italics and bulleted lists from disks-hdd-os-retirement

Co-authored-by: roygara <[email protected]>

Author: Copilot

articles/virtual-machines/disks-hdd-os-retirement.md

@@ -25,14 +25,9 @@ After September 8, 2028, any existing virtual machines using Standard HDD OS Dis
 
 This retirement is only for the ability to use Standard HDD disks as OS disks. None of the other managed disk types or ephemeral OS disks will be affected by this retirement.
 
-The following disk types are **not affected** by this retirement:
-- Standard HDD data disks (non-boot volumes) - these remain supported for use as data storage
-- [Ephemeral OS disks](ephemeral-os-disks.md) - these are not affected by this retirement
-- All other managed disk types (Standard SSD, Premium SSD, Premium SSD v2, Ultra Disks)
-
 ## What actions should I take?
 
-- **Immediately stop creating new virtual machines with Standard HDD OS disks.** Use Standard SSD or Premium SSD for new OS disks instead.
+Stop creating new virtual machines with Standard HDD OS disks. Use Standard SSD or Premium SSD for new OS disks instead.
 
 To start planning a migration to either Standard SSD or Premium SSD OS disks, first, make a list of all affected OS disks and VMs.
 

articles/virtual-machines/disks-types.md

@@ -194,11 +194,6 @@ Standard SSDs offer disk bursting, which provides better tolerance for the unpre
 
 ## Standard HDDs
 
-> [!NOTE]
-> Service for OS disks running on Standard HDD will be retired on September 8, 2028. OS disks still on Standard HDD after this date will be automatically converted to Standard SSD of equivalent size. Standard HDD data disks (non-boot volumes) are not affected. [Ephemeral OS disks](ephemeral-os-disks.md) are not affected. For migration guidance, see [Migrate your Standard HDD OS disks by September 08, 2028](disks-hdd-os-retirement.md) and [Convert managed disks storage between different disk types](disks-convert-types.md).
-
-Converting from Standard HDD to Standard SSD will result in a cost increase. Review [Azure Disk Storage billing guidance](disks-understand-billing.md) to understand the cost implications and choose the most appropriate disk type for your workloads.
-
 Azure Standard HDDs are suitable for latency-tolerant workloads using large, sequential IO, such as light data processing workloads that read or write large files sequentially. Standard HDDs are not suitable for workloads requiring low latency, or frequent small-block access - such as OS disks or transactional databases. Use either Standard SSDs or Premium SSD managed disks for these workloads. Standard HDDs are designed to deliver write latencies of less than 10 ms and read latencies of less than 20 ms for most IO operations. Performance may vary more widely than that of SSD-based disks, and actual performance may vary depending on IO size and workload pattern. Standard HDDs are available in all Azure regions and can be used with all Azure VMs. Standard HDDs support the [512E sector size](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Format#512_emulation_(512e)).
 
 ### Standard HDD size

articles/virtual-machines/includes/disks-hdd-os-statement.md

@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ ms.date: 08/19/2025
 ms.author: rogarana
 ---
 > [!NOTE]
-> On September 8, 2028, the ability to use Standard HDD disks as [OS disks](../managed-disks-overview.md#os-disk) will be retired. After this date, any remaining Standard HDD OS disks will be automatically converted to Standard SSD of equivalent size if not migrated prior. Standard HDD data disks (non-boot volumes) and [Ephemeral OS disks](../ephemeral-os-disks.md) are not affected. To learn more about the retirement and migration options, see [Migrate your Standard HDD OS disks by September 08, 2028](../disks-hdd-os-retirement.md) and [Convert managed disks storage between different disk types](../disks-convert-types.md).
+> On September 8, 2028, the ability to use Standard HDD disks as [OS disks](../managed-disks-overview.md#os-disk) will be retired. To learn more, see [Migrate your Standard HDD OS disks by September 08, 2028](../disks-hdd-os-retirement.md).

articles/virtual-machines/managed-disks-overview.md

@@ -119,8 +119,6 @@ On Azure Windows VMs, drive C is your OS disk and is persistent storage, unless
 
 A data disk is a managed disk attached to a virtual machine to store application data or other data. Data disks are registered as SCSI drives and are labeled with a letter that you choose. The size and type of the virtual machine determines how many data disks you can attach to the VM and the disk types you can use with the VM.
 
-Standard HDD remains supported for data disks (non-boot volumes) beyond September 8, 2028.
-
 Generally, you should use data disks to store your applications and data, instead of storing them on an [OS disk](#os-disk). Using data disks to store applications and data offers the following benefits over using OS disks:
 
 - Improved backup and disaster recovery
@@ -148,5 +146,4 @@ On Azure Linux VMs, the temporary disk is typically */dev/disk/azure/resource*.
 - Learn more about the individual disk types that Azure offers, which type is fits your needs, and their performance targets, see [Select a disk type for IaaS VMs](disks-types.md)
 - Learn about how [Virtual machine and disk performance](disks-performance.md) works
 - Learn the [Best practices for achieving high availability with Azure virtual machines and managed disks](disks-high-availability.md)
-- Learn more about how managed disks are billed, see [Understand Azure Disk Storage billing](disks-understand-billing.md)
-- See [Convert managed disks storage between different disk types](disks-convert-types.md) for guidance related to the Standard HDD OS disk retirement
+- Learn more about how managed disks are billed, see [Understand Azure Disk Storage billing](disks-understand-billing.md)