Bad sectors were allowed only in the file data area and ( since DOS 2.0 ) were marked with the reserved value 0xFF7 in the FAT . They made the entire containing cluster unusable.
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For data areas such as stack and heap, where custom code or useful data can be loaded, more than one state can be attacked by using NOP slides for code or repeated copies of data.
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Those data elements may be resident in the data area of RAM that is owned by explorer . exe or its associated shell extension DLLs, ( which might resident in RAM or paged to disk ).
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The data area contains the recorded user data, while the ECC field contains codes based on the data field, which are used to check and possibly correct errors that may have been introduced into the data.
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If a different menu entry such as " Paste " is chosen, the software may execute the instructions to copy the text from the clipboard data area to a specific location in the same or another document in memory.
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Address space layout randomization ( ASLR ) is a computer security feature which involves arranging the positions of key data areas, usually including the base of the executable and position of libraries, heap, and stack, randomly in a process'address space.
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With its total control, this program is not required to ever call the BIOS again and may even shut BIOS down completely, by removing the BIOS ISR vectors from the processor interrupt vector table, and then overwrite the BIOS data area.
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EIA-608 captions are transmitted on either the odd or even fields of line 21 with an odd parity bit in the non-visible active video data area in NTSC broadcasts, and are also sometimes present in the picture user data in transmissions.
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The first 8 byte data area contains a PSW which, when fetched at the conclusion of the IPL, causes the CPU to branch to the bootstrap loader ( called " IPL Text " ) at the main storage address where it was just loaded.
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How can I find out if a given flash drive has the wear leveling feature, and does this apply to the index space / " sector count ", as well as the data area ? talk ) 17 : 26, 2 July 2009 ( UTC)