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If Something Goes Wrong
Resolving a hardware conflict
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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 and select
Properties
from the menu.
The drive’s properties box appears.
3
Click the
Tools
tab.
4
Click the
Check now
button.
The Check Disk All Apps box appears.
5
You can choose one or both options:
❖
Automatically fix file system errors
❖
Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors
6
Click
Start
.
Error-checking runs the test.
