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What (who) is disk crash - definition

TYPE OF CATASTROPHIC HARD DISK FAILURE
Disk crash; Buzz of death
  • A head crash in a modern drive. Note circular scratch mark on the platter.
  • IBM RAMAC disk]] shows head crash damage.

Head crash         
A head crash is a hard-disk failure that occurs when a read–write head of a hard disk drive makes contact with its rotating platter, slashing its surface and permanently damaging its magnetic media. It is most often caused by a sudden severe motion of the disk, for example the jolt caused by dropping a laptop to the ground while it is operating or physically shocking a computer.
Crash (computing)         
  • A kernel panic as displayed in OS X Mountain Lion
  • A [[Blue Screen of Death]] as displayed in Windows XP, Vista, and 7
ABNORMAL SITUATION WHEN A COMPUTER PROGRAM SUCH AS A SOFTWARE APPLICATION OR AN OPERATING SYSTEM STOPS FUNCTIONING PROPERLY AND EXITS
Computer crash; Crash (computer science); Application crash; System crash; Crash to desktop; Crash To Desktop; Game freeze; Crash to Desktop; Program crash; Operating system crash; Operating system crashes; Software crash; Crash (software); PC crash
In computing, a crash, or system crash, occurs when a computer program such as a software application or an operating system stops functioning properly and exits. On some operating systems or individual applications, a crash reporting service will report the crash and any details relating to it (or give the user the option to do so), usually to the developer(s) of the application.
crash and burn         
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Crash n' burn; Crash N' Burn; Crash n' Burn; Crash & Burn (CSI episode); Crash And Burn; Crash and Burn (song); Crash and Burn (disambiguation); Crash 'n' Burn; Crash 'n Burn; Crash and Burn (album); Crash&Burn; Crash & Burn (song); Crash & Burn; Crash 'N' Burn (video game); Crash 'n Burn (video game); Crash N' Burn (video game); Crash N Burn; Crash and burn; Crash and Burn (film)
<jargon> A spectacular crash, in the mode of the conclusion of the car-chase scene in the movie "Bullitt" and many subsequent imitators (compare die horribly). A Sun-3 {display screen} losing the flyback transformer and lightning strikes on VAX-11/780 backplanes are notable crash and burn generators. The construction "crash-and-burn machine" is reported for a computer used exclusively for alpha or beta testing, or reproducing bugs (i.e. not for development). The implication is that it wouldn't be such a disaster if that machine crashed, since only the testers would be inconvenienced. [Jargon File] (1996-02-22)

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Head crash

A head crash is a hard-disk failure that occurs when a read–write head of a hard disk drive makes contact with its rotating platter, slashing its surface and permanently damaging its magnetic media. It is most often caused by a sudden severe motion of the disk, for example the jolt caused by dropping a laptop to the ground while it is operating or physically shocking a computer.