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Definition of Head crash
1. Noun. (computer science) a crash of a read/write head in a hard disk drive (usually caused by contact of the head with the surface of the magnetic disk).
Definition of Head crash
1. Noun. (computing) A collision of the head of a hard drive with the platter, resulting in irreparable damage to the hard drive. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Head Crash
Literary usage of Head crash
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center by Dorian J. Cougias, E. L. Heiberger, Karsten Koop (2003)
"Sooner or later, the head comes in contact with the recording area of the disk
and a head crash results. When a head crash results, it creates a dimple in ..."
2. Microcomputer Security by David J. Stang (1991)
"However, with a head crash, further use of the disk may cause further damage, as
the iron oxide that was knocked from the surface during the crash will now ..."
3. Defend Your Data!: Guide to Data Recovery by David J. Stang (1991)
"... Crashes Problem A "head crash" occurs when the read/write heads come down hard
on the hard disk surface, damaging the media and/or the heads themselves. ..."
4. Beechenbrook: A Rhyme of the War by Margaret Junkin Preston (1866)
"Heard ye that thrilling word— Accent of dread— Flash like a thunderbolt, Bowing
each head— Crash through the battle dun, Over the booming gun— ..."
5. Notes of Thought by Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1883)
"Steady, my pet, at the five-barred gate, Lightly over with heart elate ; Up with
the elbow, down with the head, Crash through the bullfinch like shot of ..."
6. The Aerial World: A Popular Account of the Phenomena and Life of the Atmosphere by Georg Hartwig (1875)
"... HEAD. crash, but the balloon, by the very free use of the valve-line, had been
crippled, and never rose again or even dragged us from the spot on which ..."
7. The Sunny Land: Or, Prison Prose and Poetry, Containing the Production of by Buehring H. Jones, James A. Houston (1868)
"HEARD ye that thrilling word — Accent of dread — Flash like a thunderbolt, Bowing
each head— Crash through the battle dun, Over .the booming gun, " Ashby, ..."
8. Along Four-footed Trails: Wild Animals of the Plains as I Knew Them by Ruth A. Cook (1903)
"Ah! there it was and he crept closer with the handle of his spear held high above
his head. Crash went the fork into the earth. And immediately after there ..."
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