Absolute Beginners Guide to Upgrading and Fixing Your PC

Chapter 23. What to Do When You Can't Access Your Disks

IN THIS CHAPTER

• You can't access your hard drive

• Your new hard disk doesn't work

• You lost valuable data on a bad hard disk

• Your CD/DVD drive doesn't work

Your disks your hard disks, in particular are where you store your valuable data. If, for some reason, you can't access your disk, you also can't get to your data. And if your disk is damaged beyond repair, your data is gone, as well.

Which is why you really don't want to run into hard disk problems!

Still, hard disk-related problems occur as do problems with the other disk drives on your system, including your CD-ROM and DVD drives. Read on to learn more about what causes disk-related problems and how to deal with them.