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  2. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    Windows 2000 used its built-in kernel mode font, Windows XP, Vista, and 7 use the Lucida Console font, and Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 used the Segoe UI font. BSoDs on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 are rendered in higher resolutions than previous versions of Windows, where it uses the highest screen resolution available on UEFI machines.

  3. Backup and Restore - Wikipedia

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    Backup and Restore [1] (formerly Backup and Restore Center [2]) is the primary backup component of Windows Vista and Windows 7. It can create file and folder backups, as well as system images backups, to be used for recovery in the event of data corruption, hard disk drive failure, or malware infection. It replaces NTBackup, which has been part ...

  4. Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology - Wikipedia

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    Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology ( S.M.A.R.T., often written as SMART) is a monitoring system included in computer hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs). [1] Its primary function is to detect and report various indicators of drive reliability with the intent of anticipating imminent hardware failures.

  5. Solid-state drive - Wikipedia

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    Windows Vista. Windows Vista generally expects hard disk drives rather than SSDs. Windows Vista includes ReadyBoost to exploit characteristics of USB-connected flash devices, but for SSDs it only improves the default partition alignment to prevent read-modify-write operations that reduce the speed of SSDs. Most SSDs are typically split into 4 ...

  6. The best external hard drives - Engadget

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    The Samsung supports faster, USB 3.1 Gen 2 speeds with a Type-C port, and it includes AES 256-bit hardware encryption to protect your sensitive data. The T5 is about as expensive per gigabyte as ...

  7. SanDisk CEO says Vista "not optimized" for SSDs - Engadget

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    Noting that Windows Vista would present unique challenges for SSD manufacturers, he stated that "as soon as you get into Vista applications, you start running into very demanding applications ...

  8. EFI system partition - Wikipedia

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    UEFI support in Windows began in 2008 with Windows Vista® SP1. The Windows boot manager is located at the \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\ subfolder of the EFI system partition. On Windows XP 64-Bit Edition and later, access to the EFI system partition is obtained by running the mountvol command. Mounts the EFI system partition on the specified drive.

  9. Black screen of death - Wikipedia

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    Later versions of Windows. MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11 display a black screen of death when the operating system cannot boot. There are many different causes for this problem to occur, and each one of them requires a different solution.