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How to Handle File Indexing Corruption In Microsoft Windows 7

File Indexing is an allegedly useful feature of Microsoft Windows operating system. It extracts critical information from files on hard disk and creates the â??searchable keyword indexâ? that Is used for making the file search more efficient. Using file indexing … Continue reading

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Group Descriptors corruption in Linux – cause and solution

In Linux the Ext2 and ext3 file systems space is categorized into blocks, which are further organized block groups. There is particular data structure for each group which defines it and contains valuable information, called group block descriptor. The data … Continue reading

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Reiserfs File System Corruption and Linux Recovery

ReiserFS is the Journaled file system used for the Linux operating system. For the various features of this file system like metadata- only journaling, tail packing and online resizing, it is well adopted by the users who rely on it … Continue reading

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Superblock Corruption in Sun Solaris

A superblock in UFS (Unix File System) volume is the most critical part that contains vital information about the file systemâ??s geometry and behavior tuning parameters. Corruption of superblock primarily occurs due to overlapping disk partitions, operating system malfunctioning, unexpected … Continue reading

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