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  2. CHKDSK - Wikipedia

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    CHKDSK and UNDELETE in MS-DOS 5.0 have a bug which can corrupt data: If the file allocation table of a disk uses 256 sectors, running CHKDSK /F can cause data loss and running UNDELETE can cause unpredictable results. This normally affects disks with a capacity of approximately a multiple of 128 MB.

  3. Bad sector - Wikipedia

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    Hard disk reader. 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.

  4. Data loss - Wikipedia

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    However, in most situations, there is an inverse correlation between the value of a unit of data and the length of time it takes to notice the loss of that data. Taking this into consideration, many backup strategies decrease the granularity of restorability as the time increases since the potential Data Loss Event .

  5. Hard disk drive failure - Wikipedia

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    Data from a failed drive can sometimes be partially or totally recovered if the platters' magnetic coating is not totally destroyed. Specialized companies carry out data recovery, at significant cost. It may be possible to recover data by opening the drives in a clean room and using appropriate equipment to replace or revitalize failed ...

  6. Data corruption - Wikipedia

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    Data corruption during transmission has a variety of causes. Interruption of data transmission causes information loss. Environmental conditions can interfere with data transmission, especially when dealing with wireless transmission methods. Heavy clouds can block satellite transmissions.

  7. Data recovery - Wikipedia

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    Data damage can be caused when, for example, a file is written to a sector on the drive that has been damaged. This is the most common cause in a failing drive, meaning that data needs to be reconstructed to become readable. Corrupted documents can be recovered by several software methods or by manually reconstructing the document using a hex ...

  8. Data degradation - Wikipedia

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    Data degradation is the gradual corruption of computer data due to an accumulation of non-critical failures in a data storage device. It is also referred to as data decay, data rot or bit rot. [1] This results in a decline in data quality over time, even when the data is not being utilized.

  9. Talk:CHKDSK - Wikipedia

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    >CHKDSK is the use of the Command-line/R parameter, which allows the program to repair damage it finds on the hard drive. This is wrong, CHKDSK doesn't repair damage it copies data in bad sector AND replaces unreadable part of bad sector with zeros. Some data will be lost. Bold textIt is not tool for recovering the critical data.