As hard drive capacities have surged, the risk of failure has gotten more severe, since one disk can conceivably contain every photo, e-mail, video and document you've created over the course of a decade.

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Failure by Microsoft to warn purchasers that the use of Windows may cause hard drive and other failures, causing data loss.

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By placing Dr. Younger on leave in the wake of the hard drive debacle, Richardson has falsely implied that this widely respected physicist bears responsibility for the repeated failure of Department officials to implement his recommended changes at the lab and for the sensitive hard drives going missing.

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