If You Hear An Unfamiliar Scraping Or Grinding Sound; Hard Drive Problems - Dell XPS M2010 Owner's Manual

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D I S K W I L L N O T E J E C T
Problems writing to an optical drive
C L O S E O T H E R P R O G R A M S
interrupted, an error occurs. Try closing all programs before you write to the drive.
T U R N O F F S T A N D B Y M O D E I N
page 62 or search for the keyword standby in the Windows Help and Support Center for information on power
management modes.
H A N G E T H E W R I T E S P E E D T O A S L O W E R R A T E
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E N S U R E T H A T T H E D I S C I S L O A D E D I N T H E D R I V E W I T H T H E L A B E L F A C I N G U P
for proper insertion instructions.
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rewritten.
E N S U R E T H A T T H E R E I S E N O U G H F R E E S P A C E O N T H E W R I T A B L E D I S C
to its maximum capacity. The drive needs 1–2 MB of the blank space to finalize the recording.

If you hear an unfamiliar scraping or grinding sound

• Ensure that the sound is not caused by the program that is running.
• Ensure that the disk or disc is inserted properly.

Hard drive problems

L L O W T H E C O M P U T E R T O C O O L B E F O R E T U R N I N G I T O N
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from starting. Try allowing the computer to return to room temperature before turning it on.
U N H E C K I S K
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1 Click the Start button and click My Computer.
2 Right-click Local Disk C:.
3 Click Properties.
4 Click the Tools tab.
5 Under Error-checking, click Check Now.
6 Click Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors.
7 Click Start.
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Troubleshooting
— Press the eject button again. If problem continues, restart the system.
— The optical drive must receive a steady stream of data when writing. If the stream is
W I N D O W S B E F O R E W R I T I N G T O A
— CD-R, DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD+R DL, and BD-R discs cannot be
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— See the help files for your CD, DVD, or BD creation software.
— Do not burn a blank CD-R or CD-RW
— A hot hard drive may prevent the operating system
O R BD — See "Standby Mode" on
— See "Playing Media" on page 37