Discover and fix Disk faults

Over time, your hard disk produces bad sectors. Bad sectors slow down hard disk operation and occasionally make data writing problematic or even out of the question. To discover and fix disk faults, Windows has a inbuilt tool called the Error Checking utility. It will explore the hard disk for bad sectors and system errors and fix them for smoother performance.

Again this is verified on Windows XP

* Click on Begin > My Computer
* In My Personal right-click the hard disk you desire to scan and click Properties
* Click the Tools tab
* Click Check Now
* Choose the Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors check box
* Click Start

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Defragment Your Disk

Among the factors that slow down the performance of the personal is disk fragmentation. When files are fragmented, the personal must explore the hard disk when the file is opened to piece it back together. To accelerate the reaction time, you ought each month run Disk Defragmenter, this is a easy Windows utility that defragments and consolidates fragmented files for faster personal response.

This is the method on Windows XP to do the essential steps

* Follow Begin > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter
* Click the drives you desire to defrag and click Analyze
* Click Defragment

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