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  2. Hard disk drive failure - Wikipedia

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    This may be a limited occurrence or a sign of imminent failure. A drive that has any reallocated sectors at all has a significantly increased chance of failing soon. Stiction: after a time the head may not "take off" when started up as it tends to stick to the platter, a phenomenon known as stiction. This is usually due to unsuitable ...

  3. USB hardware - Wikipedia

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    Non-standard USB extension cable, plug on the left, receptacle on the right. (USB does not allow extension cables. [1] Non-standard cables may work but cannot be presumed reliable.) The connectors the USB committee specifies support a number of USB's underlying goals, and reflect lessons learned from the many connectors the computer industry ...

  4. USB flash drive security - Wikipedia

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    The Windows autorun.inf file contains information on programs meant to run automatically when removable media (often USB flash drives and similar devices) are accessed by a Windows PC user. The default Autorun setting in Windows versions prior to Windows 7 will automatically run a program listed in the autorun.inf file when you access many ...

  5. Troubleshooting - Wikipedia

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    Troubleshooting is a form of problem solving, often applied to repair failed products or processes on a machine or a system.It is a logical, systematic search for the source of a problem in order to solve it, and make the product or process operational again.

  6. USB - Wikipedia

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    This section describes the power distribution model of USB that existed before Power-Delivery (USB-PD). On devices that do not use PD, USB provides up to 4.5 W through Type-A and Type-B connectors, and up to 15 W through USB-C. All pre-PD USB power is provided at 5 V. For a host providing power to devices, USB has a concept of the unit load ...

  7. USB mass storage device class - Wikipedia

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    The USB mass storage device class (also known as USB MSC or UMS) is a set of computing communications protocols, specifically a USB Device Class, defined by the USB Implementers Forum that makes a USB device accessible to a host computing device and enables file transfers between the host and the USB device. To a host, the USB device acts as an ...

  8. exFAT - Wikipedia

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    [62] [63] (This release does not make exFAT royalty-free, as licensing from Samsung does not remove Microsoft's patent rights.) [64] [65] A version of this driver was first incorporated into version 5.4 of the Linux kernel. [66] [67] [68] A much newer version of the driver, with several bug fixes and improved reliability, was incorporated into ...

  9. USB flash drive - Wikipedia

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    However, for installation of Windows 7 and later versions, using USB flash drive with hard disk drive emulation as detected in PC's firmware is recommended in order to boot from it. Transcend is the only manufacturer of USB flash drives containing such a feature.