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2. Hard disk drive failure - Wikipedia

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   A hard disk failure may occur in the course of normal operation, or due to an external factor such as exposure to fire or water or high magnetic fields, or suffering a sharp impact or environmental contamination, which can lead to a head crash. The stored information on a hard drive may also be rendered inaccessible as a result of data ...

3. Data recovery - Wikipedia

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   The most common data recovery scenarios involve an operating system failure, malfunction of a storage device, logical failure of storage devices, accidental damage or deletion, etc. (typically, on a single-drive, single-partition, single-OS system), in which case the ultimate goal is simply to copy all important files from the damaged media to another new drive.

4. Head crash - Wikipedia

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   A head crash. A head crash is a hard-disk failure that occurs when a read–write head of a hard disk drive makes contact with its rotating platter, slashing its surface and permanently damaging its magnetic media. It is most often caused by a sudden severe motion of the disk, for example the jolt caused by dropping a laptop to the ground while ...

5. Windows File Recovery - Wikipedia

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   Windows File Recovery can recover files from a local hard disk drive (HDD), USB flash drive, or memory card such as an SD card. [4][5] It can work to some extent with solid-state drives (SSD). [6] The program is run using the winfr command. [4] It has a mode designed for NTFS file systems, that will attempt recovery of files from a disk that is ...

6. Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology - Wikipedia

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   Software that shows the health of the drive and its smart attributes. [1] Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T., often written as SMART) is a monitoring system included in computer hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs). [2] Its primary function is to detect and report various indicators of drive ...

7. Error recovery control - Wikipedia

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   Modern hard drives feature an ability to recover from some read/write errors by internally remapping sectors and performing other forms of self-test and recovery. The process for this can sometimes take several seconds or (under heavy usage) minutes, during which time the drive is unresponsive.