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Windows® 7 Resource Kit
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Windows® 7 Resource Kit

by Tony Northrup Mitch Tulloch and Jerry Honeycutt
October 2009
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1760 pages
93h 25m
English
Microsoft Press
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How to Troubleshoot Disk Problems

Disk problems can cause unpredictable behavior in Windows. First, disk problems can lead to corrupted files because important system files and drivers are stored on your hard disk. Second, disk problems can lead to corruption in the page file or temporary files. Third, low disk space can lead to failed attempts to allocate disk space for temporary files. Any of these types of problems can cause unpredictable behavior. As a result, one step in troubleshooting hardware problems should be to check for disk problems and free up available disk space. Additionally, if you have a hard disk with nonvolatile caching, you can disable nonvolatile caching to determine whether the cache is causing problems.

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