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Hard Drives: Serious Errors
Hard drives are an essential component in any computer – it's usually what your PC's operating system boots from, it stores your programs and data, and it uses part of its space as a virtual memory holding area to keep our desktops running smoothly. The tutorials in this series represent some of the most serious errors and problems you can see related to your hard drive. Keep your data backed up regularly if you don't want to lose anything.

  Tutorials
  Drive Formatted in Error
  "Unrecoverable Error"
  Hard Drive Spins Up, Not Seen
  Drive OK, But Light Stays On
  When Many Drives Fail Fast
  Drive Works Only as Slave
  Invalid Media Type Error
  Many Random Drive Errors
  Windows Won't Scandisk