Disk drive problems – Toshiba F15 User Manual

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If Something Goes Wrong

Resolving a hardware conflict

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Small bright dots appear on your TFT display when you
turn on your computer.

Your display contains an extremely large number of thin-film
transistors (TFT) and is manufactured using high-precision
technology. The small bright dots that appear on your display
are an intrinsic characteristic of the TFT manufacturing
technology.

Over a period of time, and depending on the usage of the
computer, the brightness of the LCD Screen will deteriorate.
This is an intrinsic characteristic of LCD technology.

Maximum brightness is only available when operating in AC
power mode. Screen will dim when the computer is operated
on battery power and you will not be able to increase the
brightness of the screen.

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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