Thread: Hard disk care

It's not uncommon for a hard disk, in particular old ones, to fail. Usually, though, the operating system can recover from these errors and retrieve most, ifnot all, the lost data and mark the bad sectors as unusable. But if you have too many bad sectors, your hard disk starts to become unresponsive and is at risk offailing altogether. It's therefore important to keep your disk maintained by checking it for errors regularly. You can do this by clicking Start, then Run and typing CHKDSK.lferrors are encountered, you'll need to re-run the program using the IF parameter to allow it to attempt to fix them.

It's not uncommon for a hard disk, in particular old ones, to fail. Usually, though, the operating system can recover from these errors and retrieve most, ifnot all, the lost data and mark the bad sectors as unusable. But if you have too many bad sectors, your hard disk starts to become unresponsive and is at risk offailing altogether. It's therefore important to keep your disk maintained by checking it for errors regularly. You can do this by clicking Start, then Run and typing CHKDSK.lferrors are encountered, you'll need to re-run the program using the IF parameter to allow it to attempt to fix them.



You can also minimise wear and tear on your hard disk by relocating the system's swap drive to an external hard disk or USB memory key. You may even' find that you speed up your PC if the new disk is faster than your current system's. To do this select System Properties, Advanced and click on Settings. Then select Advanced and, in the Virtual Memory section, click on Change. You can then choose which drive will hold the virtual memory and click on Set followed by OK. It's recommended you keep the 'System managed size' option checked unless you know what you're doing.

You can also minimise wear and tear on your hard disk by relocating the system's swap drive to an external hard disk or USB memory key. You may even' find that you speed up your PC if the new disk is faster than your current system's. To do this select System Properties, Advanced and click on Settings. Then select Advanced and, in the Virtual Memory section, click on Change. You can then choose which drive will hold the virtual memory and click on Set followed by OK. It's recommended you keep the 'System managed size' option checked unless you know what you're doing.