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  2. Soft reboot - Wikipedia

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    Soft reboot may refer to: A warm reboot, where a computer system restarts without the need to interrupt the power; A soft reboot (fiction) ...

  3. Hard copy - Wikipedia

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    A file that can be viewed without printing on a screen is sometimes called a soft copy. [2] [3] The U.S. Federal Standard 1037C defines "soft copy" as "a nonpermanent display image, for example, a cathode ray tube display." [4] The term "hard copy" predates the digital computer.

  4. Glossary of backup terms - Wikipedia

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    Copy backup. backs up the selected files, but does not mark the files as backed up (reset the archive bit). This is found in the backup with Windows 2003. Daily backup. incremental backup of files that have changed today. Data salvaging/recovery. the process of recovering data from storage devices when the normal operational methods are impossible.

  5. Reset (computing) - Wikipedia

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    User initiated hard resets can be used to reset the device if the software hangs, crashes, or is otherwise unresponsive. However, data may become corrupted if this occurs. [ 6 ] Generally, a hard reset is initiated by pressing a dedicated reset button On some systems (e.g, the PlayStation 2 video game console), pressing and releasing the power ...

  6. NTFS links - Wikipedia

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    The serious problems occur if hard links are copied exactly such that they become, in the new copy, cross-volume hard links which still point to original files and folders on the source volume. Unintentional cross-volume hard links, such as hard links in an "archive" folder which still point to locations on the original volume (according to ...

  7. Booting - Wikipedia

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    Restarting a computer also is called rebooting, which can be "hard", e.g. after electrical power to the CPU is switched from off to on, or "soft", where the power is not cut. On some systems, a soft boot may optionally clear RAM to zero. Both hard and soft booting can be initiated by hardware such as a button press or by a software command.

  8. Crash (computing) - Wikipedia

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    An Abnormal end or ABEND is an abnormal termination of software, or a program crash.Errors or crashes on the Novell NetWare network operating system are usually called ABENDs.

  9. Cold boot attack - Wikipedia

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    A common purpose of cold boot attacks is to circumvent software-based disk encryption. Cold boot attacks when used in conjunction with key finding attacks have been demonstrated to be an effective means of circumventing full disk encryption schemes of various vendors and operating systems, even where a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) secure cryptoprocessor is used.