Word: shock
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...because the head is very, very close to the platter surface--typically only one one-thousandth of an inch away--any physical shock to the hard disk could well cause the metal head to scratch over the platter surface and destroy whatever information that's stored in the path. Such damages are physical and therefore unrecoverable: your data is simply lost forever...
...exact same setup. I unplugged minewhen it happened and took it apart...I was scaredcause it was right next to my bench," said MichaelI. Schwartz `96. "People were in shock fromhearing the explosion...
...here today warning about the danger of civil war in Russia, as a result of those policies being imposed upon the former Soviet Union, in the form of Jeffrey Sachs shock therapy," said LaRouche supporter Roger...
...news came as a cultural shock. After nearly 22 years and some 800 programs, during which he had occupied 65 different armchairs in clubby library sets, Alistair Cooke, 84, was retiring as host of Masterpiece Theatre. For millions of PBS viewers, Cooke was like the guest they always hoped to meet at a party -- charming, informed but never overbearing as he steered them urbanely through such series as Upstairs, Downstairs, I, Claudius and The Jewel in the Crown, discoursing on Edwardian manners, the English public school or life in the sunlit empire...
Moaning from pain and shock, Elgudzha Bagaturia staggered into the brick house where fellow Georgian soldiers were taking cover from small arms fire. A stream of blood gushed from a hole in his neck, courtesy of a grenade hurled by Abkhazian insurgents trying to take the city of Sukhumi, the capital of their autonomous region within Georgia. Suddenly, an exploding shell shook the house from the left. Then another concussion, this time from the right. The enemy artillery was zeroing in on its target. "Outside everyone!" shouted Misha, the black-bearded commander. "They have found...