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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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| 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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