Disk Drive Problems - Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 Series User Manual
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- Detailed product specification (11 pages)
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If Something Goes Wrong
Resolving a hardware conflict
Disk drive problems
Problems with the hard disk or with a diskette drive usually
show up as an inability to access the disk or as sector errors.
Sometimes a disk problem may cause one or more files to
appear to have garbage in them. Typical disk problems are:
You are having trouble accessing a disk, or one or more
files appear to be missing.
Make sure you are identifying the drive by its correct name
(A: or C:).
Error-checking
Run Error-checking, which analyzes the directories, files and
File Allocation Table (FAT) on the disk and repairs any
damage it finds.
To run Error-checking:
1
Click Start, then click My Computer.
2
Right-click the drive you want to check.
3
On the pop-up menu, click Properties.
The drive's Properties box appears.
NOTE
4
Click the Tools tab.
5
Click the Check now button.
The Check Disk All Apps box appears.
6
You can choose one or both options:
This feature is not available for CD/DVD drives.
Automatically fix file system errors
Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors
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