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  2. Bad sector - Wikipedia

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    A bad sector in computing is a disk sector on a disk storage unit that is unreadable. Upon taking damage, all information stored on that sector is lost. When a bad sector is found and marked, the operating system like Windows or Linux will skip it in the future. Bad sectors are a threat to information security in the sense of data remanence.

  3. CHKDSK - Wikipedia

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    On Windows NT operating systems, CHKDSK can also check the disk surface for bad sectors and mark them (in MS-DOS 6.x and Windows 9x, this is a task done by Microsoft ScanDisk). The Windows Server version of CHKDSK is RAID-aware and can fully recover data in bad sectors of a disk in a RAID-1 or RAID-5 array if other disks in the set are intact. [11]

  4. Boot sector - Wikipedia

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    As an example, the malware NotPetya attempts to gain administrative privileges on an operating system, and then would attempt to overwrite the boot sector of a computer. [5] [6] The CIA has also developed malware that attempts to modify the boot sector in order to load additional drivers to be used by other malware. [7]

  5. Emergency repair disk - Wikipedia

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    In Windows 2000, an ERD can be created by clicking "Backup" under "System Tools" (Start->Programs->Accessories->System Tools->Backup). It can be used for the following repair functions: Inspect and repair the startup environment. Verify the Windows 2000 system files and replace missing or damaged files. Inspect and repair the boot sector. [5]

  6. System File Checker - Wikipedia

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    In Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 10, System File Checker is integrated with Windows Resource Protection (WRP), which protects registry keys and folders as well as critical system files. Under Windows Vista, sfc.exe can be used to check specific folder paths, including the Windows folder and the boot folder. Windows File Protection (WFP ...

  7. SpinRite - Wikipedia

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    Spinrite is distributed as a Microsoft Windows executable program which can create a bootable drive containing both the FreeDOS MS-DOS-compatible operating system and the Spinrite program itself. Version 6 is compatible with hard disks containing any logical volume management or file system such as FAT16 or 32, NTFS , Ext3 as well as other ...

  8. Windows Boot Manager - Wikipedia

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    It replaced the NTLDR present in older versions of Windows. The boot sector or UEFI loads the Windows Boot Manager (a file named BOOTMGR on either the system or the boot partition), accesses the Boot Configuration Data store and uses the information to load the operating system through winload.exe or winresume.exe. [2]

  9. TestDisk - Wikipedia

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    TestDisk reads sectors on the storage device to determine if the partition table or filesystem on it requires repair (see next section). TestDisk is able to recognize the following partition table formats: [2] Apple partition map; GUID Partition Table; Humax; PC/Intel Partition Table (master boot record) Sun Solaris slice; Xbox fixed ...