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| A |
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| Active Partition |
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| Active Volume |
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| Allocation Unit (or Cluster) |
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| American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) |
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| Archive Bit |
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| Areal Density |
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| Attribute (or Attribute Byte) |
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| Attribute (Resident & Non-Resident) |
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| Attribute List |
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| Automatic Backup Scheduling |
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| B |
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| B-tree (or b-tree) |
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| Backup: (Why Should I?) |
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| Backup Types (Thou shalt make regular and complete backups) |
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| Backward Compatibility |
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| Bad Block or Bad Sector |
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| Base File Record |
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| Basic Disk |
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| Basic Input/Output Subsystem (BIOS) |
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| Basic Volume (Simple Volume) |
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| Binary Number Base System |
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| BIOS Parameter Block (BPB) |
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| Bit Binary Digit |
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| Bitmap File |
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| Boot |
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| Boot Code (executable instructions within the MBR) |
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| Boot Device Drivers |
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| Boot.ini (non-Windows NT-based & Windows NT-based operating system system startup file #2) |
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| Boot Partition |
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| Boot Record |
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| Boot Sector |
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| Boot Sector Virus |
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| Bootsect.dos (multiple-boot system; Windows NT-based operating system system startup file #3 (if necessary only)) |
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| Bootstrap |
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| Bootstrap Loader |
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| Boot Volume |
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| Byte (symbol B) or “octet” |
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| C |
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| Character |
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| Character Set |
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| Check Disk (chkdsk.exe) |
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| Checksum (or Verification) |
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| CHS (Cylinder, Head, Sector) |
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| Cluster (or Allocation Unit) |
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| Cluster Factor |
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| Code Page |
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| Cold Boot |
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| Command |
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| COMMAND.COM |
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| Command Interpreter |
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| Compressed File or Folder |
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| Crash |
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| Cylinder |
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| D |
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| Data |
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| Data Loss & Data Recovery |
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| Default |
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| Defect Map |
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| Defragmentation |
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| Device Drivers (location - systemroot\System32\Drivers - Windows NT-based operating system system startup file #9) |
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| Device Object |
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| Directory |
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| Disc & Disk |
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| Dismount |
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| Drive |
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| Driver Object |
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| Dynamic Cluster Remapping |
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| Dynamic Disk |
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| Dynamic Volume |
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| E |
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| Embedded Controller |
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| Encryption (Thou shalt use encryption for sensitive data) |
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| Environment Variable |
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| Exabyte (a million terabytes, symbol EB) |
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| Extended Partition |
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| Extended Partition Boot Record (EPBR) |
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| F |
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| FAT (12-, 16-, and 32-bit) |
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| Fault Tolerance |
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| FDISK.EXE |
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| File |
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| File Allocation Table |
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| File Attribute |
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| Filename |
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| File Record |
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| File Reference |
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| Filesystem |
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| Fixed Disk (or Hard Disk Drive) |
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| Floppy Diskette |
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| Folder |
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| FORMAT.COM |
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| Formatted Capacity |
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| Formatting |
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| Fragmentation |
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| Free Space |
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| G |
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| Gibi (symbol Gi) |
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| Gibibyte (symbol Gi) |
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| Giga (symbol G) – Latin: gigas, meaning giant |
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| Gigabyte (symbol GB or Gb) |
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| GUI (Graphical User Interface, spoken as GU-EE) |
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| H |
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| Hal.dll (location - systemroot\System32 - Windows NT-based operating system system startup file #7) |
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| Head |
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| Hexadecimal Number Base System (HEX) |
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| High Density (HD) |
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| I |
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| IBMBIO.CO |
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| IBMDOS.COM |
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| IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) |
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| Initialise |
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| IO.SYS |
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| J |
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| Journaling |
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| Jumper Block (shunt or switch) |
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| K |
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| Kilo (symbol K or k) – Greek: khilioi. |
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| Kilobyte (symbol KB or Kb) |
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| L |
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| Landing Zone |
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| Large Mode |
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| Last Known Good Configuration |
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| LBA (Logical Block Addressing) |
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| Logical Disk Manager (LDM) Database |
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| Library |
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| Library Request |
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| Local (standalone) Computer |
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| Log File |
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| Logging |
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| Logical Cluster Number (LCNs) |
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| Logical Drive |
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| Logical Volume |
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| M |
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| Master File Table (MFT) |
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| Master File Table Mirror ($MFTMirr) |
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| MBR Disk |
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| Mebibyte (symbol Mi) |
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| Media (Physical Media) |
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| Mega (symbol M or m) – Greek: megas, meaning great |
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| Megabyte or Decimal Megabyte (symbol MB or Mb) |
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| Metadata – Greek: meta - + Latin: data “information” (or Volume Structure Data; literally “data about data”) |
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| Metadata Files |
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| MFM Encoding (Modified Frequency Modulation Encoding) |
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| MFT Mirror ($MFTMirr) |
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| Mount |
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| Mount Points |
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| MSDOS.SYS |
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| Multi-Data Stream |
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| Multi-Partition Volumes |
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| Multi-Path I/O (MPIO) Drivers |
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| Multi-Pathing |
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| N |
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| Network Attached Storage (NAS) |
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| Ntbootdd.sys (Windows NT-based operating system system startup file #5) |
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| Ntdetect.com (Windows NT-based operating system system startup file #4) |
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| NTFS (New Technology Filesystem) |
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| NTFS File Attribute |
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| Ntldr (NT Loader; Windows NT-based operating system system startup file #1) |
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| Ntoskrnl.exe (location - systemroot\System32 - Windows NT-based operating system system startup file #6) |
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| O |
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| Open File |
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| Operating System |
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| Overlay |
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| P |
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| Partition |
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| Partition Table |
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| Path |
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| Petabyte (symbol PB) |
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| Physical Drive |
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| POST (Power-On Self Test) |
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| Primary Partition |
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| Program |
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| Protected Mode |
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| R |
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| Real Mode |
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| Reboot (or warm boot) |
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| Recoverable Filesystem |
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| Recovery Console (RC) |
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| Reparse Data |
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| Reparse Point |
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| Reparse Tag |
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| RLL (Run Length Limited) |
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| Root Directory |
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| Routine |
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| S |
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| Safe Mode |
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| SCANDISK.EXE |
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| Sector |
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| Session |
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| Server |
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| Shell |
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| S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) |
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| Soft Error |
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| Software |
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| Starting Cluster |
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| Stop Error, Blue Screen of Death (BSoD), Blue Screen, Stop Message, Exception Error, or Fatal System Error |
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| Storage Area Network (SAN) |
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| Storage Management |
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| Subdirectory |
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| Subroutine |
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| Symbolic Link (or Junction Point) |
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| System Crash |
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| System Files |
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| System File Corruption |
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| System Hive Corruption |
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| System Partition |
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| Systemroot |
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| System Registry File (location - systemroot\System32\Config\System – operating system system startup file #8) |
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| System Volume |
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| T |
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| Task Manager (Shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+Esc) |
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| Tebi (symbol Ti) |
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| Tera (symbol T or t) – Greek: teras, meaning monster |
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| Terabyte (symbol TB or Tb) |
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| Thread |
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| Track |
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| U |
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| UDF (Universal Disk Format) |
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| Unallocated Space |
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| Unformatted Capacity |
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| Universal Naming Convention (UNC) |
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| Update |
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| Upgrade |
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| V |
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| Variable |
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| Virtual Memory (or Virtual Memory Addressing) |
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| Volume |
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| Volume Boot Records (VBR) |
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| Volume File |
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| Volume Label |
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| Volume Mount Points |
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| Volume Shadow Copy (NTFS filesystem for Windows XP Professional & Server 2003 only) |
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| W |
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| Warm Boot |
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| Windows File Protection (WFP) |
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| Windows Kernel (Lower Windows Executive) |
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| Windows NT Architecturally Based Operating Systems |
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| Windows Startup Phases NT-Based |
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| Windows Registry |
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| Windows Shutdown |
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