Disk drive problems – Toshiba VIRTUALTECH C6609-1201M1 User Manual

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If Something Goes Wrong

Resolving a hardware conflict

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A message tells you that there is a problem with your
display settings and that the adapter type is incorrect or
the current settings do not work with your hardware.

Reduce the size of the color palette to one that is supported
by the computer’s internal display.

To change the display properties:

1

Point at the desktop and click with the secondary button.

The Display Properties window appears.

2

Click Properties, then click the Settings tab.

3

Adjust the screen resolution and/or color quality.

4

Click OK.

The display mode is set to Simultaneous and the external
display device does not work.

Make sure the external monitor is capable of displaying at
resolutions of 800 x 600 or higher. Devices that do not
support this resolution will only work in External monitor
only mode.

Disk drive problems

Problems with the hard disk or with a diskette drive usually
show up as an inability to access the disk or as sector errors.
Sometimes a disk problem may cause one or more files to
appear to have garbage in them. Typical disk problems are:

You are having trouble accessing a disk, or one or more
files appear to be missing.

Make sure you are identifying the drive by its correct name
(A: or C:).

Error-checking

Run Error-checking, which analyzes the directories, files and
File Allocation Table (FAT) on the disk and repairs any
damage it finds:

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