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You may also see Windows error messages saying one of the following:

• “The following file is missing or corrupt”

• “The download location information is damaged”

• “Unable to load file”

• “… is not a valid Win32 application”

• “Bootmgr is missing…Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart”

• “Your PC ran into a problem…This problem caused your PC to

restart”

• “This app can’t run on your PC”

If core boot files become corrupted, you may see text errors at boot, such

as the following:

• “Error loading operating system”

• “An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration

data”

The first fix for any of these problems is to run the Error checking utility.

Error checking will go through and mark bad blocks and, hopefully, move

your data to a good block. If the same errors continue to appear after you run

the Error checking utility, there’s a chance that the drive has too many bad

blocks and may need to be recycled.

Almost all drives today take advantage of built-in error correction code

(ECC) that constantly checks the drive for bad blocks. If the ECC detects a

bad block, it marks the block as bad in the drive’s internal error map. Don’t

confuse this error map with a FAT. The partitioning program creates the

FAT. The drive’s internal error map was created at the factory on reserved

drive heads and is invisible to the system. If the ECC finds a bad block, you

will get a corrupted data error as the computer attempts to read the bad block.

Disk-checking utilities fix this problem most of the time.

Dying Hard Drive

Physical problems are rare, thankfully, but they are devastating when they

happen. If a hard drive is truly damaged physically, there is nothing that you

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