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."
- Take the Mental Approach First
- Hardware and File structure problems
- System Starts but Cannot Find the Hard Drive
- Hard Drive Initializes but Will Not Boot