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HP Notebook Hard Drives & Solid State
Drives
Identifying, Preventing, Diagnosing and
Recovering from Drive Failures
Care and Maintenance Measures
Technical White Paper
Table of contents |
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Identifying, Preventing, Diagnosing, and Recovering from Drive Failures | 2 |
Introduction | 2 |
Symptoms of Hard Drive (HDD) Performance Issues | 2 |
Hard Drive / Solid State Drive Troubleshooting Flowchart | 4 |
Hard Drive & Solid State Drive Diagnostics | 5 |
Advanced Diagnostics - Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) | 5 |
HP 3D Drive Guard | 5 |
Firmware & Product Updates | 6 |
Intel Matrix Storage Technology driver | 6 |
Installing SATA drivers | 6 |
Care and Maintenance Measures | 7 |
Preparing Advanced Format HDDs for Microsoft Windows installations | 7 |
Hard Drive Mounting Bracket | 7 |
HP CMI - Client Management Interface | 7 |
Additional HP Recommendations for Optimizing Performance on Products with Older Operating Systems .. | 7 |
For more information | 8 |