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  2. 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 ...

  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. File system fragmentation - Wikipedia

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    File system fragmentation has less performance impact upon solid-state drives, as there is no mechanical seek time involved. [10] However, the file system needs to store additional metadata for each non-contiguous part of the file. Each piece of metadata itself occupies space and requires processing power and processor time.

  5. Windows Update - Wikipedia

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    Windows Update is a Microsoft service for the Windows 9x and Windows NT families of the Microsoft Windows operating system, which automates downloading and installing Microsoft Windows software updates over the Internet.

  6. Talk:Plasma display - Wikipedia

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    Failure or misadjustment of this circuit is common on PDPs, leading to stuck flickering pixels (called "mal-discharge".) If a plasma display has displayed the same content for a long time, it may have difficulty erasing this wall charge and an image may persist for a few seconds to a few minutes.

  7. List of Danball Senki episodes - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of episodes from the anime Danball Senki, its sequel series Little Battlers eXperience W, and the final chapter in Little Battlers eXperience Wars.It also contains the list of Danball Senki dubbed episodes, LBX: Little Battlers Experience, which is listed separately due to the number of edits, episode deletions, and episode merges (44 to 26).

  8. Year 2000 problem - Wikipedia

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    Y2K is a numeronym and was the common abbreviation for the year 2000 software problem. The abbreviation combines the letter Y for "year", the number 2 and a capitalized version of k for the SI unit prefix kilo meaning 1000; hence, 2K signifies 2000.

  9. DNA repair - Wikipedia

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    DNA repair is a collection of processes by which a cell identifies and corrects damage to the DNA molecules that encode its genome. [1] In human cells, both normal metabolic activities and environmental factors such as radiation can cause DNA damage, resulting in tens of thousands of individual molecular lesions per cell per day. [2]