CIS 170F: Windows 7 Administration

Week 4

Managing Disks
Hard Disk Troubleshooting

  • Hard drive problems consist of:
    • the inability to access a critical file,
    • a hard drive that will not boot, or
    • one of those cryptic "Fatal Error-Cannot access hard disk" messages.
  • Hard drive problems range from file system structures that have been twisted out of shape to catastrophic, dead-in-the-water hard drive failures.
  • The catastrophic failures are the easy ones to diagnose and fix. More often than not, the inconsistent "What the heck?" problems are the real "head-scratchers."