Toshiba Qosmio G55-Q801 User Guide - Page 181
Disk or internal storage drive problems, You are having trouble accessing a drive
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If Something Goes Wrong Resolving a hardware conflict 181 Disk or internal storage drive problems Problems with the internal storage drive or with a diskette drive usually show up as an inability to access the drive or as sector errors. Sometimes a drive problem may cause one or more files to appear to have garbage in them. Typical problems are: You are having trouble accessing a drive, 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 Allocation Table (FAT) on the drive and repairs any damage it finds. To run Error-checking: 1 Click Start, and then Computer. 2 Right-click the drive you want to check. 3 On the pop-up menu, click Properties. The drive's Properties box appears. NOTE This feature is not available for optical drives. 4 Click the Tools tab. 5 Click the Check now button. The Check Disk box appears. 6 You can choose one or both options: ❖ Automatically fix file system errors ❖ Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors 7 Click Start. Error-checking tests and repairs the disk. Your internal storage drive seems very slow. If you have been using your computer for a long time, your files may have become fragmented. Run Disk Defragmenter. To do this, click Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and then Disk Defragmenter. After it opens, click Defragment now.