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Hard Drive Troubleshooting and Repair

Every PC has one or more mass storage devices, such as hard drives, DVD drives, external USB drives or memory cards. In Windows you can configure all mass storage devices using the Disk Management Console, which allows you to format, partition and mirror your drives, amongst many other things.

However, you may find there are times when the Disk Management Console won’t let you access drives because they are in an offline state, uninitialised, or there is a problem with the RAID system. Fortunately, you can use the Disk

Management Console to cure these problems too. In this article, I’ll show you how to manage all aspects of your hard drive using the Disk Management Console and also how to quickly, and easily, repair errors in the Disk Management Console when you come across them.

 

Category: Issues, Optimisation
Issue: 2015 Issue 4 April
Operating Systems: XP, Vista, 7, 8
Article Reference: H390