Checking For Hard Disk Drive Errors; Understanding Hard Disk Drive Space - HP A6110n - Pavilion - 2 GB RAM Troubleshooting And Maintenance Manual

Checking for Hard Disk Drive Errors

Understanding Hard Disk Drive Space

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Troubleshooting and Maintenance Guide
If Disk Defragmenter repeatedly starts, a program is still accessing the hard disk drive.
Restart the computer in Safe Mode and run the Disk Defragmenter program again:
1 Click the Windows Start Button, click the arrow next to the
Lock button, and then click Restart.
2 Press the F8 key as soon as the first logo screen appears.
3 On the Windows Advanced Options menu, use the arrow keys to select Safe Mode
and press the Enter key.
4 Press the Enter key again to select the operating system.
5 Log on to Windows Vista. When the Desktop message appears, click Yes to continue
in Safe Mode.
6 After Windows Vista starts, use the procedure described above to run the Disk
Defragmenter program.
Perform the following procedure to check the integrity of the hard disk drive in Windows
Vista. Close all open programs before beginning the disk check.
1 Click the Windows Start Button, and then click Computer.
2 In the window that opens, right-click the hard disk drive that you want to check, and
click Properties.
3 In the Properties window, click the Tools tab.
4 Under Error-checking, click Check Now.
5 If desired, click the check box next to Automatically fix file system errors and
Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors.
6 Click Start. If prompted to restart, click Yes to restart the computer.
Hewlett-Packard and Compaq computers with the Windows Vista operating system
preinstalled may appear to have a hard disk drive smaller than what is stated in the
product specifications, in the documentation, or on the box. Hard disk drives are
described and advertised by manufacturers in terms of decimal (base 10) capacity.
Windows Vista and other programs, such as FDISK, use the binary (base 2)
numbering system.
In decimal notation, one megabyte (MB) is equal to 1,000,000 bytes, and
one gigabyte (GB) is equal to 1,000,000,000 bytes. In the binary numbering system, one
megabyte is equal to 1,048,576 bytes, and one gigabyte is equal to
1,073,741,824 bytes. Because of the different measuring systems, you may see a
difference between the size reported by Windows Vista and the size advertised. The
storage capacity of the hard disk drive is as advertised.
Windows Vista reports smaller capacity in the Windows Explorer tool and in the Computer
window because it shows information about one partition on the hard disk drive at a time.
One of the partitions contains the system recovery information.