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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. EFI system partition - Wikipedia

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    GRUB 2, elilo and systemd-boot serve as conventional, full-fledged standalone UEFI boot managers (a.k.a. bootloader managers) for Linux. Once loaded by a UEFI firmware, they can access and boot kernel images from all devices, partitions and file systems they support, without being limited to the EFI system partition.

  4. List of Hewlett-Packard products - Wikipedia

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    K – HP Officejet Pro Kxxx color printer; M – HP Mono LaserJet Mxxxx Multifunction printer; N – HP Scanjet Nxxxx document/professional image scanner; P – HP Mono LaserJet Pxxxx printer * Trailing alpha description codes: aio – All in One; d – Duplex; eMFP – Electronic Multi Function Printer; h – Hard disk; l – Light use

  5. Host protected area - Wikipedia

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    An initial HPA could then be set (by some jumpers on the hard disk) to limit the number of cylinders to 4095 or 4096 so that the older BIOS would start. It was then the job of the bootloader to reset the HPA so that the operating system would see the full hard-disk storage space.

  6. Hard disk drive performance characteristics - Wikipedia

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    On SCSI hard disk drives, the SCSI controller can directly control spin up and spin down of the drives. Some Parallel ATA (PATA) and Serial ATA (SATA) hard disk drives support power-up in standby (PUIS): each drive does not spin up until the controller or system BIOS issues a specific command to do so. This allows the system to be set up to ...

  7. HP Inc. - Wikipedia

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    HP's business computers are marketed under the "Pro" and "Elite" prefixes. It also manufactures the DeskJet, OfficeJet, LaserJet, and Envy series of printers. In the professional space, HP market the HP Z series of desktop workstations and its mobile equivalent, HP ZBook.

  8. Bad sector - Wikipedia

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    Hard disk reader. A bad sector in computing is a disk sector on a disk storage unit that is unreadable. Upon taking damage, all information stored on that sector is lost. When a bad sector is found and marked, the operating system like Windows or Linux will skip it in the future.

  9. HPE XP - Wikipedia

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    The HP Storageworks XP (XP = eXtended Platform) is a computer data storage disk array sold by Hewlett Packard Enterprise using Hitachi Data Systems hardware and adding their own software to it. [1] It's based on the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and targeted towards enabling large scale consolidation, large database, Oracle, SAP, Exchange ...