Chapter 9: Troubleshooting

You cannot eject a CD or DVD

Your notebook must be turned on to remove CDs and DVDs. If you do not want to turn on your notebook, manually eject the disc by inserting an opened paper clip into the manual eject hole. See “Inserting a CD or DVD” on page 49 for the location of the manual eject hole.

File management

A file was accidentally deleted

If a file was deleted at a DOS prompt or in Windows while holding down the SHIFT key, the file cannot be restored.

To restore deleted files:

1 Double-click the Recycle Bin icon.

2 Right-click the file you want to restore, then click Restore. The file is restored to the place where it was originally deleted from.

If the Recycle Bin was emptied before you tried to restore a file, the file cannot be restored.

Help and For more information about restoring deleted files, click

Support Start, then click Help and Support. Type the keyword System Restore in the Search box

, then click the arrow.

Hard drive

You see an “Insufficient disk space” error message

■Delete unnecessary files from the hard drive using Disk Cleanup.

Tips & Tricks

For instructions on deleting unnecessary files, see “Using

 

Disk Cleanup” in Using Your Computer which has been

 

included on your hard drive. To access this guide, click

 

Start, All Programs, then click Gateway Documentation.

 

 

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