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  2. 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 ...

  3. Error recovery control - Wikipedia

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    A WDTLER.EXE utility allows the enabling or disabling of the TLER parameter on Western Digital hard drives. This utility is written for DOS. The utility works on and makes changes to all compatible Western Digital hard disk drives connected to the computer. The change survives power-cycling. Western Digital used to mention the tool in an FAQ. [12]

  4. 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.

  5. Troubleshooting AOL Desktop Gold

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    If you are missing items or your settings are not saving correctly, try the solutions listed below. Close Desktop Gold and relaunch • Open task manaager • End task on ALL "AOL Desktop.exe" • Open Desktop Gold • If the issue still exists, proceed to the next step. Restart the computer • Restart your computer and restart Desktop Gold

  6. Error message - Wikipedia

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  7. CHKDSK - Wikipedia

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    Logical errors are typically defined as software-level problems with a filesystem (or its metadata) as a result of prior software malfunction (e.g. crashes) or irregular use (e.g. hard resets). Logical errors are contrasted with and usually less severe than hardware -level errors, which can not be fixed with CHKDSK and may instead require data ...

  8. Black screen of death - Wikipedia

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    Rarely an experienced user would reinstall Windows. In the case of the former, the boot loader will most likely inform the user the name of the missing file, allowing for the user to supply and/or reinstall the missing files to resolve the boot problem. In the case of the latter, however, the computer will not be able to boot, even into safe mode.

  9. Data corruption - Wikipedia

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    Many errors are detected and corrected by the hard disk drives using the ECC codes [17] which are stored on disk for each sector. If the disk drive detects multiple read errors on a sector it may make a copy of the failing sector on another part of the disk, by remapping the failed sector of the disk to a spare sector without the involvement of ...