Troubleshooting Storage Devices - CompTIA A+ 220-1101 - 5.3

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We rely on our storage devices for the safety and availability of our operating systems and data. In this video, you’ll learn how to troubleshoot storage devices with boot failures, data corruption, RAID recovery options, and more.
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FOLLOW PROFESSOR MESSER:

[agentooeAD]

One thing to note about drives not showing up. If you're building a new system or adding a M.2 drive, check to make sure which M.2 slot your installing the drive in, if it has more than one. I ran into a situation where my motherboard disabled SATA ports 5 and 6 if a M.2 drive was inserted into the second slot. It took me a bit to figure this out, because at first, I thought there was something physically wrong (port, cable, drive, etc.). So, just keep that in mind if you install an M.2 drive and all of a sudden a couple of SATA devices disappear.

[fatjawns]

The last part about missing drives is like PTSD for me. I bought another m.2 nvme drive for my PC as it only came with 500gbs. I opened up my PC, my first time ever doing it, I inserted the drive (didn’t have a magnetic screwdriver so literally took me like 30 minutes lol) and it wouldn’t show up.

This was because I was running a 10th gen intel on a board that disables one of the m.2 drives if you have 10th and not 11th gen. I would have never found this out, but some guy on discord helped me, and this is kinda what kick started my appreciation for PC’s and building

[RyantheCanuckpirate]

Nearing the end of "new" material - I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Ooh finally a city I've lived in! The city at the start/end is Montreal

[gabrielsly]

If you move the drive to a different system to see if it works...well what about Bitlocker being enabled.. how would that work Prof?

[Nicholas]

Professor, what third party software would you recommend using for monitoring drives?

[nicoletreichel]

Could someone explain formatting boot information with MBR scheme and GPT scheme? unless it's not necessary to know. I have the compTIA course and they talk about it, and I don't understand it.