182 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 system on the disk and repairs any damage it finds:
To run Error-checking:
1Click Start, then click My Computer.
2Right-click the drive you want to check and click
Properties.
The drive’s properties box appears.
3Click the Tools tab.
4Click the Check Now button.
The Check Disk window appears.
5You can choose one or both options:
❖Automatically fix file system errors
❖Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors
6Click Start.
The Error-checking test runs.