Troubleshooting Hard Drive Implementation

Question 1

Four steps to installing a hard drive

Answer 1

Connectivity, system setup, partitioning, and formatting

Question 2

Partitioning errors

Answer 2

Failing to partition or making the wrong size or type of partition

Question 3

What happens if you forget to partition?

Answer 3

Drive won’t show up in Windows Explorer?FIle Explorer- Only in Disk Management

Question 4

How do you fix partition errors?

Answer 4

right click and select Extended Volume, do not delete data

Question 5

What makes a drive unable to hold data?

Answer 5

Failing to format it

Question 6

Formating errors

Answer 6

Windows in drive: “is not accessible”
from C:> prompt: “Invalid media type”

Question 7

Can corrupt files create the invalid media error?

Answer 7

Yes

Question 8

What does the error “Trying to recover lost allocation unit” mean?

Answer 8

When drive makes bad sounds, it means that there is a block or cluster (allocation unit)

Question 9

What happens when a new drive gets a lot of “Trying to recover lost allocation unit” errors?

Answer 9

Its means that the drive is dying and needs to be replaced.

Question 10

Who reports bad clusters?

Answer 10

S.M.A.R.T.

Question 11

If drive isn’t in UEFI, what else could be wrong?

Answer 11

check the data and power cables

Question 12

What can cause data corruption?

Answer 12

Power surges, accidental, shutdowns, corrupted installation media, viruses, hundreds of other problems

Question 13

What are Windows error messages for corrupted files?

Answer 13

“The following file is missing or currupt?
“The download location information is damaged”
“Unable to load file”
“…is not a valid Win32 application”
“Bootmgr is missing…Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to resstart”
“Your PC ran into a problem…This problem caused your PC to restart”
“This app can’t run on your PC”

Question 14

What are some core errors at boot?

Answer 14

“Error loading operating system”
“An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration data”

Question 15

What do you do when you see a core error at boot?

Answer 15

run the Error checking utility

Question 16

What happens if the error checking utility doesn’t work after seeing a core error at boot?

Answer 16

drive has too many bad blocks, may need to be recycled

Question 17

What constantly checks the drive for bad blocks?

Answer 17

built-in error correction code (ECC)

Question 18

What do you do if the ECC finds a bad block and gives you a corrupted data error?

Answer 18

Use Disk-checking utilities to fix the problem.

Question 19

What are common hard drive dying problems?

Answer 19

Extended read/write times.
Drive works properly but making noises
Drive dissapears.

Question 20

What does this error message mean? “Bootable Device Not Found”

Answer 20

Drive died and your OS is locked up.