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| Automated System Recovery |
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| The Windows XP process that allows you to restore an entire hard drive volume or logical drive to its state at the time the backup of the volume was made. |
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| A text file containing a series of OS commands. Autoexec.bat is a batch file. |
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| A Windows utility that searches for bad sectors on a volume and recovers data from them if possible. |
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| A Vista utility that can make a backup of the entire volume on which Vista is installed and can also back up other volumes. |
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| Windows program and command to defragment a volume. |
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| A way to partition one or more hard drives, in which information about the drive is stored in a database at the end of the drive. Compare to basic disk. |
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| A volume type used with dynamic disks by which you can create a single volume that uses space on multiple hard drives. |
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| A file that has been written to different portions of the disk so that it is not in contiguous clusters. |
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| A folder that is used as a shortcut to space on another volume which effectively increases the size of the folder to the size of the other volume. Also see mounted drive. |
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| A volume that can be accessed by way of a folder on another volume so that the folder has more available space. Also see mount point. |
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| The Windows 2000/XP/Vista swap file. |
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| RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks or redundant array of independent disks) |
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| Several methods of configuring multiple hard drives to store data to increase logical volume size and improve performance, or to ensure that if one hard drive fails, the data is still available from another hard drive. |
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| A snapshot of the Windows XP/Vista system, usually made before installation of new hardware or applications. |
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| A Windows XP/Vista utility used to restore the system to a restore point. |
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| In Windows 2000/XP, files that are necessary for a successful load of the operating system. |
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| The group of folders and subfolders in the C:\Users folder that belong to a specific user account. |
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| A method whereby the OS uses the hard drive as though it were RAM. Compare to RAM drive. |
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| A*or ? character used in a command line that represents a character or group of characters in a filename or extension. |
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