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Computers
The hard drive can display problems such as "retry, abort, ignore" or "cannot read sectors" while operating. This is an indication that there may be bad or unreadable spots on the drive. Reformatting and reinstalling the operating system can normally correct this problem. This will cause you to loose all data on your drive so it is important to always have a good backup of yourfiles daily.There are good good utilities you can purchase that can repair hard drive problems without destroying data.Here are some general hard drive problems you should start from and we'll be more specific later.Use Operating System Utilities,First you may be able to correct those bad spots and errors from your hard drive by performing those PC maintenance in the operating system.
Check Drive cables and connections,If the connection is secure, you can remove the power supply connector and do two things. You can check to see if there is voltage with a multimeter. But its much faster to connect another 4 wire connector to the drive to see if the drive works. There are normally extra connectors from the power supply or you can use the connection to the cdrom drive to test for voltage from the power supply.
Try to access drive C: by typing DIR C: and press Enter. If you see the directories on drive C: try to make the drive bootable by typing sys a: c: and press Enter. The system files should be restored and the drive may be restored to boot on its own.Reconnect the ribbon cable and see if the hard works properly. The drive settings should be restored and should operate fine.
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