41. Troubleshooting Storage

Question 1

If a section of your hard drive has gone bad, the OS will mark it as what?

Answer 1

A bad sector

Question 2

Name 5 reasons why a disk might be slow?

Answer 2

Insufficient memory, fragmentation, controller card, bad cable, slower device on the same cable

Question 3

What is the click of death with a hard drive?

Answer 3

The read/write heads are making contact with the platter

Question 4

What are some reasons your system might not boot that are related to the hard drive?

Answer 4

The wrong boot device is selected, SMART is predicting a failure, the disk or cable may have become unseated

Question 5

When you receive an OS Not Found error at boot, it is a hardware or software problem most likely?

Answer 5

Software

Question 6

What does SMART stand for?

Answer 6

Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology

Question 7

What MS-DOS tool allows you to correct logical errors in the FAT file system?

Answer 7

CHKDSK