Glossary A-Z

With the all new technologies added each day, here are some buzzing words you may encounter. This is an explanatory section, created to add-up or brush-up the concepts of esteem visitors of Remo software website. This glossary will help you understand our products proficiently.

AMR File: AMR, Adaptive Multi-Rate is a file format used for storing compressed audio files which are optimized specially for recording the speech. Read Here...

AVI: AVI is a file format used for storing audio and video information, that is developed by Microsoft Corporation and the files will be stored with .avi extension. Read here…

BMP: BMP is a standard Windows bitmap graphics format commonly used as a graphics image format and they are usually uncompressed, hence they are larger than the other image formats. See here…

Browser History: Web Browser History is a list of websites that the user visited in recent times and even contains the date and time of the visit to that web page...

Catalog File: Catalog file is a special type of file in the HFS + file system. It contains the information about all the files and folders stored on your Mac OS X Volumes.

Convert FAT to NTFS: FAT file system is used for smaller storage devices, in order to store large amount of data on a partition, we need to convert FAT file system to NTFS.

CRC error: It is an error detection mechanism used in networking devices and storage devices to verify the available raw data in the drive doesn’t undergo any accidental changes. It has two phases the CRC generator and the CRC checker. The CRC generator uses polynomial division to generate a resultant output. In the receivers end, the actual data is checked based on the arrived data with the generated CRC.

Disk Identity: Disk Identity is a unique ID of a disk by which the computer will recognize it among other devices …

Disk Imaging: In disk imaging, complete replication of the hard disk i.e., registry programs, software, structure is done. Sector by sector mirroring of the complete drive, which includes unused sectors as well, takes place in disk imaging.

Disk Utility: Disk Utility is a tool developed by Apple for performing disk related tasks such as creation, compression, encryption and conversion of disk images in Mac OS X.

DivX: DivX short for Digital video Express, is a compression scheme that reduces the video file size on computers and on DVDs to fit into a standard CD without loss of quality...

DLL File: Dynamic Link Library is a collection of small modules of programs that can be called upon when needed by other executable program (.exe) that is executed.

DOD Standard 5220.28 STD: DOD Standard 5220.28 STD is the data sanitization standard, recommended by the US Department of Defense (DoD) to erase data from your hard drives permanently.

Encrypt Decrypt File: Encrypting a file or folder is a method which protects data from other users. Decrypting a file is the reverse process of encryption, which decodes and makes the file readable.

exFAT : exFAT is a modern modern file system designed by Microsoft Corp, specially for storage devices that use flash memory. It supports data transfer between electronic devices and computers. exFAT works well with latest operating systems including Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 (Linux), Mac OS X 10.6.5, etc.

FAT 12: In 1980, FAT 12 was designed as floppy disk file system. FAT 12 uses 12 bit entries for addressing clusters in smaller capacity hard disks and 1.44 Megabytes and 2.88 Megabytes floppy disk.

FAT 16: FAT or File Allocation Table 16 is the file system architechture that uses 16 bits for each entry in the file allocation table of a disk.

Format Error: Format errors are the errors that are caused by missing system files or broken file system that makes the device unrecognizable by OS

HFSX: HFSX is the advanced version of HFS file system that is used for organizing files on a Macintosh hard disk.

iCloud: iCloud is online storage that works on cloud computing technology; Allows you to upload and store data online which can be accessed through various registered devices…

Inside Hard Drive: Once a hard drive's case is uncovered, inside it, the physical components found are platter, spindle, spindle motor, actuator arm, etc.

Jaz Drive: Iomega Jaz drives were removable media storage unit, developed in 1995. These were used as external as well as internal units till 2002, after which its use was discontinued.

Microsoft Office: Microsoft Office is a set of applications for desktop referred as Office Suite collectively. Some of its products and applications include Microsoft Word, Excel sheets, PowerPoint presentations, Outlook and many more…

MFT: MFT or Master File Table is a file in NTFS file system, which stores details of files and folders like size, time and date stamps, permissions, and data content, etc.

MOV File: MOV is a QuickTime media container format used to store movies and other video clips, developed by Apple Inc. that is compatible on both Macintosh and Windows systems. Read here…

Multimedia Card - MMC: Multimedia Card (MMC) is one of the commonly known storage device which uses flash memory. The size of multimedia card varies from 24 mm × 32 mm × 1.4 mm

Non Bootable Disk: Non bootable disk is nothing but a device storage that has a file system to store any kind of data in it. It doesn’t have any operating system or utility programs that can initiate a normally configured PC. There are no certain boundaries or limits for non bootable disks as of in bootable disks. Any storage drive of any brands can be a non bootable disk.

NTFS : New Technology File System or NTFS is the file system which was introduced with Windows 2000 and Windows NT 3.1. NTFS is better than the antecedent file systems as it restricts user access, provides more security, better performance and more.

NTFS5 : NTFS5 is the advanced version of new Technology File system, which was initially released to support Windows NT and above operating systems. In addition to NTFS features it has many other features. Know more…

Partition Boot Sector: Hard drive is the main storage area of data which is further divided into number of partitions. Every partition contains its own volume boot sector. Volume boot sector is different from master boot sector which controls the entire hard disk, but similar in functionality, this concept is also known as boot volume record or partition boot sector.

Plug and Play: Plug and play devices are those that work or get recognized instantly whenever they are connected to computer.

ROM BIOS: BIOS is abbreviated from Read Only Memory Basic Input Output System. The BIOS contains a program to control the hardware devices like keyboard, hard drives, display devices, serial communication components and plug and play devices (PnP) like add on cards. Since it is the first program to be executed, it is stored in ROM where the data are written at the time of manufacturing.

Safari Web Browser: Safari is Apple’s web browser that is first introduced from Mac OS X and iOS operating systems and released in 2003. Read more...

Safe Mode: Safe mode is a special way of loading Windows when there is a system critical problem; this is used to troubleshoot Windows and to determine the possible causes of the issues.

SD card: Secure Digital or SD cards are memory card formats used in small and portable electronic gadgets to provide efficient storage. SD card come different speed, storage capacities and sizes – SD card, miniSD card and microSD card.

Small Web Format: SWF stands for Small Web Format is a proprietary file format used for playing Flash animation files i.e. flash movies and is an extension of Shockwave Flash files.

SmartMedia Card: SmartMedia Card is a type of memory card that consists of a flash memory chip and used in handheld PCs, PDAs, cell phones, digital cameras…

Soft Reset: Soft Reset is an act of rebooting or restarting a phone to clear the internal memory of the running programs and to reset the phone to default settings without losing any data…

UMS: USB mass storage Class is a set of computing protocols that are designed to make your USB accessible to the computers connected and enables the file transfer process between them...

Utility Software: Utility programs, commonly referred as “utilities” are software programs that add functionality to your computer or help your computer perform better.

vFAT: vFAT or Virtual File Allocation Table is used in Windows OS from Windows 95, to support long file names.

VCF Files: VCF files are a popular digital business cards that includes basic contact information such as address, phone number, email address, picture, name, etc.

Volume Header: The Volume header is an index table that contains information about hard drive Volumes that works on its own individual file system. Using this information, the BIOS and the operating system will traverse the Volumes of hard drives for data.

WAV File: WAV is a Waveform Audio File format, refers to a standard format of playing uncompressed audio files that is mainly used on Windows PCs. Read more...

Windows Registry Key: Windows registry is used to store the configuration settings of Windows operating system in the form of hierarchical database. The keys and value combination required to access the settings stored in the form of directories are called Windows registry keys.

Xvid: Xvid is a video codec library following the MPEG-4, which is developed by Divx Inc and it is available for a limited number of platforms. Read here to know more…

Zipx: Zipx file is basically a zip file uses advanced compression and encryption methods to create or open a compressed archive.