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  2. TestDisk - Wikipedia

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    TestDisk is a free and open-source data recovery utility that helps users recover lost partitions or repair corrupted filesystems. [1] TestDisk can collect detailed information about a corrupted drive, which can then be sent to a technician for further analysis.

  3. Troubleshooting AOL Desktop Gold

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    • Within your address book, type in your contact using the Quick Find search bar. There may be times your contact is not displayed in the same order as before. • If the issue still exists, proceed to the next step. Compose/Write email window • Open a new email by clicking the Write button on the toolbar.

  4. Fatal system error - Wikipedia

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    The user will only see the blue screen if the system is not configured to automatically restart (which became the default setting in Windows XP SP2). Otherwise, it appears as though the system simply rebooted (though a blue screen may be visible briefly). In Windows, bug checks are only supported by the Windows NT kernel.

  5. CHKDSK - Wikipedia

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    [10] On Windows NT operating systems, CHKDSK can also check the disk surface for bad sectors and mark them (in MS-DOS 6.x and Windows 9x, this is a task done by Microsoft ScanDisk). The Windows Server version of CHKDSK is RAID-aware and can fully recover data in bad sectors of a disk in a RAID-1 or RAID-5 array if other disks in the set are ...

  6. Kernel panic - Wikipedia

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    10.0–10.1: The system displays text on the screen, giving details about the error, and becomes unresponsive. 10.2: Rolls down a black transparent curtain then displays a message on a white background informing the user that they should restart the computer. The message is shown in English, French, German and Japanese.

  7. Data corruption - Wikipedia

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    Data scrubbing is another method to reduce the likelihood of data corruption, as disk errors are caught and recovered from before multiple errors accumulate and overwhelm the number of parity bits. Instead of parity being checked on each read, the parity is checked during a regular scan of the disk, often done as a low priority background process.

  8. Hard disk drive failure - Wikipedia

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    In order to avoid the loss of data due to disk failure, common solutions include: Data backup, to allow restoration of data after a failure; Data scrubbing, to detect and repair latent corruption; Data redundancy, to allow systems to tolerate failures of individual drives

  9. Crash (computing) - Wikipedia

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    If the program is a critical part of the operating system, the entire system may crash or hang, often resulting in a kernel panic or fatal system error, on Windows this can result in a Blue Screen. Most crashes are the result of a software bug .