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  2. System Mechanic - AOL Help

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    Restore power, speed and stability with over 200 critical tests and 50 tools using the go-to solution for ultimate PC performance and trouble-free computing.

  3. Hard disk drive failure - Wikipedia

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    A hard disk drive failure occurs when a hard disk drive malfunctions and the stored information cannot be accessed with a properly configured computer. 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 ...

  4. Soft error - Wikipedia

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  5. Head crash - Wikipedia

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    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 it is ...

  6. Kernel panic - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export ... dump an image of kernel memory to disk for post-mortem ... If there's an error, we have this routine called panic, and when ...

  7. EFI system partition - Wikipedia

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    UEFI support in Windows began in 2008 with Windows Vista SP1. [22] The Windows boot manager is located at the \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\ subfolder of the EFI system partition. [23] On Windows XP 64-Bit Edition and later, access to the EFI system partition is obtained by running the mountvol command. Mounts the EFI system partition on the specified drive.

  8. Memory leak - Wikipedia

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    A memory leak reduces the performance of the computer by reducing the amount of available memory. A memory leak can cause an increase in memory usage and performance run-time, and can negatively impact the user experience. [4]

  9. File system - Wikipedia

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    Windows makes use of the FAT, NTFS, exFAT, Live File System and ReFS file systems (the last of these is only supported and usable in Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10; Windows cannot boot from it). Windows uses a drive letter abstraction at the user level to distinguish one disk or partition from ...