Troubleshooting tips hard drive

One day you wake the computer up and not see the familiar Windows logo appears, instead, the screen went blank, a warning appears several "cryptic" or some "beep beep ..". Be calm. Some start up problems are overcome by the simple solution to ... unexpected.


1. Do not worry: blank screen or a problem in the boot process is not always due to corrupted hard drive. Hard disk is now often longer than other parts of the PC, as well as running the system utilities are not needed and reinstall or replace hardware.

2. Reboot: Turn off computer, wait 10 seconds, and turn it back on. This movement will adjust the computer - and usually that is enough to solve this problem.

3. Check out: If the screen remains blank, check all electrical wire, cables, and connectors to ensure that they are not loose. Check the surge protector device, ensuring its fuse has not yet broken or damaged. At the same time, to check the contrast knob and watching the screen brightness has been turned down low no.

4. Listen to noises: When you boot your PC to listen to the fans run at power supplies. You must also hear the disk spin. If all were silent, the power supply can be broken or a loose electrical junction. Open the lid of the machine and check the box to make sure all cables are securely fixed. Remember to always wear antistatic or static measures body before touching any parts inside a PC. If you hear a series of beeps before your system crashes, you have to remember the number of beeps and then short or long hours. Error sound is generated from the system BIOS and tell you about a problem was detected. Find the computer manufacturer to determine the error message that means nothing in particular.

5. Find the clues: When you boot your PC running Power-On Self Test (Check when opening the phone) to confirm the presence of the major hardware components such as memory chips, video cards and drives. Observe the error message appears on the screen. You can also read confirmation or error messages when booting the system more advanced devices such as CD-ROM drive. However, do not always need to report them. If the system crashes while configuring a peripheral device, then it is likely the culprit.

If your system to boot Windows, then at least a portion of your disk still works. Windows 95 and 98 still use the DOS autoexec.bat and config.sys files to load drivers for some older hardware parts. If your PC crashes while loading this driver, please press after seeing Starting Windows 9x. This movement allows you to run that file every time a line to see what went wrong when loading device.

- If you see an error message Boot disk failure Operating system not found, or rather informed Starting Windows 9x, then your PC can not load Windows from the hard disk. Could have severely damaged hard drive.

6. Boot from the floppy. This process will bypass the hard drive and used to confirm your computer is normal. Use a Windows boot disk with your machine (if not the boot disk is best to create such a disk.) Here's how: Put it into the floppy drive, click Add / Remove Programs in Control Panel, select Startup Disk and click Create Disk. Reboot the system with the boot disk in the floppy drive. If successful the system boots and displays the prompt A: \> which means your PC is working well. Try accessing your hard disk by typing C: and press. If you see the prompt C: \>, then convert the folder and try to copy a small file to a floppy.

If successful, you can write to the disk, and disk might still be some life in it (sometimes the hard disk slowly dying). Take the opportunity to backup important files, then run a disk diagnostic utility such as ScanDisk or Norton Disk Doctor.

7. Check your CMOS settings. If the error message Dirve C: not found (or roughly so), your computer may not recognize the hard drive because it lost all its CMOS settings. This happens when the CMOS battery or broken. To fix this, the CMOS setup program: While the PC is booting, or, or press any key or by PC makers provisions (see document attached to computer technology). If no hard disk listed, you must enter the settings of this drive. You can declare parameters by hand (these parameters are usually printed on the hard drive casing), but most of the PC will re-enter them for you by automatically add-on hard drive configuration program CMOS installation.