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10 Cards in this Set
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Read/Write Failure |
Cable loose. Drive going bad - platters not spinning, read/write head stuck, motor failure. Power issues. Malware. |
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Slow Performance |
Malware. Physical drives older or going bad. Drive is severely fragmented. Logic errors and bad sectors. Power issues. Damaged drive. |
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Harddrive Disk dissected |
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Loud Clicking Noise (click of death) |
Occurs when the read/write head can no longer read/write. Power issues so it can't spin. Data cable is faulty. Head may be stuck - give it a light drop. |
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Failure to Boot |
Cables/power. BIOS setting - booting wrong drive. Boot files missing. Drive going bad. Boot sector virus - malware. |
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Drive not recognized |
Cables/power. Incorrect BIOS settings. Malware. Harddrive wasn't formatted. |
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OS not found |
Data corruption - malware, incorrect shut down. Partition not set to active. OS not installed, not installed correctly. MBR damaged. Faulty Harddrive. |
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MBR |
Master Boot Record
The information in the first sector of any hard disk that identifies where an OS is located so it can boot into the computer's main storage or RAM. |
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RAID not found |
BIOS settings incorrect.
RAID controller failing/failed.
Power issue.
Replacing faulty drive in an array is done incorrectly.
Multiple harddisk failures. |
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S.M.A.R.T Errors |
Self Monitoring, Analysis and Report Technology. Feature built into hard disk to monitor the health status of the drives. Provides the system with a method to detect an impeding failure or other problems. Gives an error code you can look up. |
