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  2. Microsoft Drive Optimizer - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Drive Optimizer (formerly Disk Defragmenter) is a utility in Microsoft Windows designed to increase data access speed by rearranging files stored on a disk to occupy contiguous storage locations, a technique called defragmentation.

  3. Comparison of S.M.A.R.T. tools - Wikipedia

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    Fixed drives USB, eSATA and removable drives RAID support [a] Shows S.M.A.R.T. attributes Hard drive self-testing Notification Notes AIDA64: Windows: Trialware [1] GUI IDE(PATA), SATA, NVMe eSATA, USB Some RAID controllers Yes No Monitoring only available in the Business Edition [2]

  4. ReadyBoost - Wikipedia

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    Desktop hard drives can sustain anywhere from 2 to 10 times the transfer speed of USB 2.0 flash drives but are equal to or slower than USB 3.0 and Firewire (IEEE 1394) for sequential data. USB 2.0 and faster flash drives have faster random access times: typically around 1 ms, compared to 12 ms for mainstream desktop hard drives. [18] On laptop ...

  5. Microsoft Reserved Partition - Wikipedia

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    Formerly, on disks formatted using the master boot record (MBR) partition layout, certain software components used hidden sectors of the disk for data storage purposes. For example, the Logical Disk Manager (LDM), on dynamic disks, stores metadata in a 1 MB area at the end of the disk which is not allocated to any partition.

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

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    Offline data collection ATA drives may support a periodic short operation called "offline data collection". Although this feature is marked "obsolete", many modern hard drives retain this feature. The drive remains operable during collection and any result is reflected only in SMART attributes (some attributes only update when "offline"). [111]

  7. NTFS - Wikipedia

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    The type of drive. 0xF8 is used to denote a hard drive (in contrast to the several sizes of floppy). 0x16 2 bytes 0x0000 Unused This field is always 0 0x18 2 bytes 0x003F Sectors Per Track The number of disk sectors in a drive track. 0x1A 2 bytes 0x00FF Number Of Heads The number of heads on the drive. 0x1C 4 bytes 0x0000003F Hidden Sectors

  8. Import and export mail and other data with AOL Desktop Gold

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    Import and export your personal data to a file for safekeeping. Personal data includes Mail, Favorites, Address Book, and settings. 1. Sign in to Desktop Gold. 2. Click the Settings icon. 3. While in the General settings, click the My Data tab. 4. Click Import or Export. 5. Select your file. 6. If exporting, create a password.

  9. Drive mapping - Wikipedia

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    All data on various mapped drives will have certain permissions set (most newer systems) and the user will need the particular security authorizations to access it. Drive mapping over LAN usually uses the SMB protocol on Windows or NFS protocol on UNIX / Linux (however UNIX/Linux do not map devices to drive letters as MS-DOS and Windows do).