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head crash
noun
A collision of the head of a hard drive with the platter, resulting in permanent damage to the hard drive.
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A head crash is a very serious hard-drive problem.
The head crash is particularly nasty.
A hard enough impact will cause a head crash, where the rapidly spinning disks inside your hard drive collide against the drive's reading head.
Do not jump or dive in near swimmers who may get in your way -- and wham, possibly having a head to head crash, or being stunned, air knocked out, and someone may drown.
Listen for strange noises: Sometimes hearing strange grinding and thrashing noises means your drive is beyond repair for instance, if you've had a head crash, it very often is.
Head Failures: A head failure occurs when the read/write head crashes into the platters (the head crash), has an "improper flying height" or the wiring between the logic board and the head is faulty among other failures related to malfunction of the read/write head.
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[Head crashes onto pillow; sleeps for twenty seconds; wakes up with deep, wracking cough.] Oh, Jesus.
Heyward-Bey's neck jerked violently before his head crashed into the ground.
He mimed the side of his head crashing into a wall.
He was not wearing a seat belt, and his head crashed against the back of Kathie's head.
Lindros's head crashed violently against the ice in his second game since returning from postconcussion syndrome.
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