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moment you try to do something with the drive you just installed. If a newly

installed drive fails to work, do a “mental reinstallation.” Does the drive

show up in the UEFI or traditional BIOS setup screens? No? Then recheck

the data and power cables. If it does show up, did you remember to partition

and format the drive? Did it need to be set to active? These are commonsense

questions that come to mind as you march through your mental reinstallation.

Even if you’ve installed thousands of drives over the years, you’ll be amazed

at how often you do things such as forget to plug in power to a drive. Do the

mental reinstallation—it really works!

Data Corruption

All hard drives occasionally get corrupted data in individual blocks. Power

surges, accidental shutdowns, corrupted installation media, and viruses, along

with hundreds of other problems, can cause this corruption. In most cases,

this type of error shows up while Windows is running. Figure 9-60 shows a

classic example.

Figure 9-60 A corrupted data error

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