Definition: Physical Damage


Damage to the physical unit. For a hard drive this may be damage to the electronics, the mechanics or the media itself.




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Invalid files

Artificial files, incorrectly created by automatic recovery utilities like Chkdsk, Scandisk, Vrepair, Norton Disk Doctor, and many others. The content of such files do not normally have any value. This is because it may contain only a fragment of the data of the original file, or it may contain fragments of several files.

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