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Table 2-12, Solving Hard Drive, Problems - restore disk

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Table 2-12 Solving Hard Drive Problems Problem Possible Cause Solution Accessing information on the Hard drive entered low hard drive is much slower power state due to timeout than usual. and is now exiting from it. Hard drive does not work. Hard drive is fragmented/not optimized or has errors. Hard drive is not seated properly. Errors occur after starting from an additional hard drive. Additional hard drive has not been specially prepared with necessary software. Wait for the system to restore the previously saved data to its state prior to initiating a low power state. Run ScanDisk and Disk Defragmenter. Turn off and unplug the computer, remove the hard drive, and reinsert the hard drive. Boot from the original hard drive or a specially prepared hard drive. System does not recognize The drive is not seated a hard drive. properly. Remove, then reinsert the drive. The drive is damaged. Try using the hard drive in another bay to verify that the problem is with the drive. Run ScanDisk on the drive. The drive was inserted while Shut down the computer before system was on or in Suspend inserting removing a hard drive. or Hibernation. DriveLock settings cannot be The DriveLock settings are Completely turn off the computer. accessed in Computer Setup. accessible only when you Turn the computer back on, then enter Computer Setup by run Computer Setup by pressing turning on (not restarting) the F10 when the blinking cursor light computer. appears upper-right on the screen. Troubleshooting 2-17

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Troubleshooting
2-17
Table 2-12
Solving Hard Drive
Problems
Problem
Possible Cause
Solution
Accessing information
on the
hard drive is much slower
than usual.
Hard drive entered low
power state due to timeout
and is now exiting from it.
Wait for the system to restore
the previously saved data to its
state prior to initiating a low
power state.
Hard drive is fragmented/not
optimized or has errors.
Run ScanDisk and Disk
Defragmenter.
Hard drive does not work.
Hard drive is not seated
properly.
Turn off and unplug the computer,
remove the hard drive, and
reinsert the hard drive.
Errors occur after starting
from an additional hard
drive.
Additional hard drive has not
been specially prepared with
necessary software.
Boot from the original hard drive
or a specially prepared hard
drive.
System does not recognize
a hard drive.
The drive is not seated
properly.
Remove, then reinsert the drive.
The drive is damaged.
Try using the hard drive in
another bay to verify that the
problem is with the drive. Run
ScanDisk on the drive.
The drive was inserted while
system was on or in Suspend
or Hibernation.
Shut down the computer before
inserting removing a hard drive.
DriveLock settings cannot be
accessed in Computer Setup.
The DriveLock settings are
accessible only when you
enter Computer Setup by
turning on (not restarting) the
computer.
Completely turn off the computer.
Turn the computer back on, then
run Computer Setup by pressing
F10
when the blinking cursor light
appears upper-right on the
screen.