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  2. Data degradation - Wikipedia

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    Data degradation in streaming media acquisition modules, as addressed by the repair algorithms, reflects real-time data quality issues caused by device limitations. However, a more general form of data degradation refers to the gradual decay of storage media over extended periods, influenced by factors like physical wear, environmental ...

  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. Hard disk drive failure - Wikipedia

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    A rising number of bad sectors can be a sign of a failing hard drive, but because the hard drive automatically adds them to its own growth defect table, [4] they may not become evident to utilities such as ScanDisk unless the utility can catch them before the hard drive's defect management system does, or the backup sectors held in reserve by ...

  5. Data corruption - Wikipedia

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    If a virus or trojan with this payload method manages to alter files critical to the running of the computer's operating system software or physical hardware, the entire system may be rendered unusable. Some programs can give a suggestion to repair the file automatically (after the error), and some programs cannot repair it.

  6. File fixity - Wikipedia

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    File fixity is a digital preservation term referring to the property of a digital file being fixed, or unchanged. [1] Fixity checking is the process of verifying that a digital object has not been altered or corrupted. [2] During transfer, a repository may run a fixity check to ensure a transmitted file has not been altered en route.

  7. Memory corruption - Wikipedia

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    When the corrupted memory contents are used later in that program, it leads either to program crash or to strange and bizarre program behavior. Nearly 10% of application crashes on Windows systems are due to heap corruption. [1] Modern programming languages like C and C++ have powerful features of explicit memory management and pointer ...

  8. USB flash drive - Wikipedia

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    USB drives with USB 2.0 support can store more data and transfer faster than much larger optical disc drives like CD-RW or DVD-RW drives and can be read by many other systems such as the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, DVD players, automobile entertainment systems, and in a number of handheld devices such as smartphones and tablet computers, though ...

  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 ...