Write protection

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Write protection
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Capacities
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Floppy controller resources
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Diskette preparation

• Format
• Records sector structure
• Creates file allocation table
• Destructive process
• Purchase pre-formatted floppies
• PC or Macintosh formats

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Boot floppies

• Minimal operating system files
• Bootable boot sector
• Files and structure vary by operating system
• Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP also
  require CD or hard drive during boot time

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Hard drive maintenance

• Checking for disk errors
• Freeing space
• Defragging
• Recovering deleted files
• Diagnostic utilities

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Optical disc and drive cleaning

• Dirt and scratches cause problems
• Wipe with soft-lint free cloth from center out
• Can use water or gentle soap
• Dont use cleaners or abrasives
• Dont need to clean the laser lens unless highly
  dusty environment

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Troubleshooting hard disks

• Cannot access drive at all
• Cannot boot from the hard drive
• Space on drive doesnt match advertised space
• Files becoming corrupted
• System will boot from the hard drive when you do
  a warm restart, but not from a cold boot
• Drive letter incorrect
• Cannot use the full space of a very large drive
• Drive not autodetected during the boot process

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Troubleshooting CD drives

• No audio plays from CD
• CD drive not found
• Disc cant be read
• Buffer under run
• Write process fails several minutes after
  starting
• Zip files are corrupted when recorded on a SCSI
  CD-RW drive
• Burned CD-RW disc cant be read on another
  computer

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Troubleshooting DVD drives

• DVD cant be played when two displays are being
  used
• UDF formatted discs cant be read
• Cannot play DVD movie

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Unit summary

• Described hard drives and file systems, and
  installed IDE and SCSI hard drives
• Described optical data storage, installed and
  used optical drives and discs
• Installed and used floppy drives and disks, and
  installed, used, and safely removed USB flash
  drives
• Maintained and resolved problems with data
  storage devices