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Protect Your Computer—How to Maintain Hard Disk
Nov 30th
As a member of computer storage equipment, hard disk plays much important role in computer running. However, since hard disk belongs to magnetic media, it is unable to use stably as well as other equipments do such as memory. In fact, it is unavoidable for you to encounter various problems. What is worse, as disk is involved in system in-depth settings, you must solve some problems under DOS circumstance.
If you are not an experienced user, it will be head ache for you. Therefore, the best method to handle it is not to solve the problems when happen but learn how to prevent them in advance. So, in this article, I will tell you some simple methods to guard against hard disk problems.
Do not compress your hard disk.
In the past, it was common to compress disk by certain orders in hope to save more space. However, as compress volume file was augmenting gradually, its read-write speed was reduced obviously. What is worse, it might creak when reading or writing data which meant it worked with heavy burden. Nowadays, disk capacity has been expanded day by day, you do not have to worry about the low disk space problem. That is to say, it is necessary to compress disk on condition that there is enough disk space to run applications.
You should clear up hard disk regularly.
Proper disk defragmentation can improve computer speed without question. If too many disk fragments are accumulating excessively, it can slow down visiting speed and harm disk tracks as well. Defragment disk can help you clear up those rubbish and make computer regain high speed. But at the same time, you should not defragment disk frequently, it can also harm disk.
Besides, you should know how to hold hard disk correctly.
When maintaining computer, you should hold the computer sides and avoid the rear circuit board colliding with other stiff things. You should hold and put it lightly. Do not touch the circuit board casually, because the static on your hand may harm electronic component on the hard disk.
You should not do low-level format lightly.
Actually, low-level formatting is the most thorough initialization of hard disk. After you perform such operation, the original protective data may be lost completely. To some degree, low-level formatting is destructive to hard disk. So only when it is extremely necessary that can you do such operation.
At the same time, avoid frequent high-level formatting operations.
It can do harm to hard disk as well. Although compared to low-level formatting, it is much better to your hard disk, it can affect hard disk performance as well. If you really want to do that, I suggest you to use the quick formatting order of parameter “Q” under the circumstance of not rearranging partitions. It is much safer for hard disks.
In conclusion, as hard disk is so significant for your computer, you should spare no effort to maintain it so as to protect your computer efficiently.
Computer Maintenance—How to Maintain Hard Disk Correctly
Nov 30th
As one of most durable fixings among computer components, hard disk can be used for six to seven years on condition that it is preserved well. Now, I will tell you how to maintain hard disk correctly.
The hard disk maintenance can be divided into two aspects. From point of view of hardware, it is better to use case, especially for those computer players. Although putting computer on the desk can help heat radiation and uninstall, it can harm computer hardware as well and hard disk in particular. Since hard disk is working with high speed, any unstable wave may lead to furious collision between disk head and Disc. And, you should avoid high temperature when using computer because it can affect computer working normally and bring damages to hard disk.
At the same time although some users know correct hard disk maintenance can do good to computer, their hard disks are still suffered from damages due to improper operations.
Though they have learned regular defragmentation can do good for hard disk from websites, they do not realize how “regular” means. If they think it can speed up computer when defragmenting hourly, it is completely wrong. As a matter of fact, frequent disk defragmentation may drag disk using efficiency. In the long run, it falls short of improving computer speed, even run counter to the desire.
What is good for hard disk and computer is to defragment properly. If you do not defragment disk for a long time, an increasingly number of disk fragments are piling in the hard disk. Then, when you visit certain of them in the future, it may take much more to read these files. Since time goes by, it can reduce files visiting speed and also harm disk tracks probably.
And when copying files, some prefer to copy several files at one time but do not know that the hard disk is overburdening, since you may find hard disk creaking loudly. Therefore, you should use anti-virus software to protect your hard disks, for example CIH may destroy the partitions in the hard disk and result in the loss of data.
Besides, do not try to use disk compress technology in the system tools. At present, disk capacity is large enough to support the computer running. It is really unnecessary to save disk space by compressing hard disks. What is more, it can slow down disk read-write data speed and affect disk usage indirectly. If you urgently want to free up disk space, it is better for you to get rid of junk files such as temporary and swap ones.
Many users do not form a good habit of closing down computer. They are hurry to pull out electric power without shutting down computer completely, even some turn off switch. However, the computer has not been replaced yet. Therefore, you should pay closed attention to whether hard disk indicator is on or not when turning off computer. It is a good habit for you in order to maintain your computer well.
In this regard, you may find it is very important to form a good habit of maintaining computer correctly, because it has influenced on hard disk and computer performance. It is a must for you to shape such good habit so as to guarantee your computer can work for you efficiently.
Hard Disk—Useful Methods to Fix Hard Disk Problems
Nov 27th
It is known to all that hard disk is storage of the computer. If there is any problem in it, it can not only harm hard disk but also slow down your computer. Therefore, you should need to know how to protect hard disk, even fix the problems. This is what I want to tell you in this article.
Sometimes, logical bad track can result from using formal vision of software. Is it weird? Actually, when some software reads data into certain sectors, others are excluded to visit these sectors. In such condition, the scanning program may consider mistakenly there are bad tracks in the sectors and you do not need to fix those tracks at all. But, do not worry about that, such software uses those ways decreasingly.
Normally, logical bad track is caused by improper using hard disk. For example, if the computer has to restart unexpectedly when hard disk is reading data, logical bad tracks are created probably at this moment. What is worse, it may even lead to physical bad tracks. In fact, you can use Windows disk tools to scan the whole disk and to fix errors automatically. The specific procedure is as follows:
In “My Computer”, you can right-click the drive letter, click “Properties”—“Tools”—“Check Now” and tick “Automatically fix file system errors” and “Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors”. At last, click “Start” and then everything is OK.
The scanning time is dependent on disk capability and scanning options. But you should be clear about that all the operating systems except Windows 98 do not display details of every sector. Therefore, it is wise for you to choose disk detecting tool of DOS—Scandisk. Such program can check every sector and mark the bad track to prevent operating system to visit this region any more. By doing this, it can guarantee to run system stably and restore data safely.
If you follow the steps mentioned above, the restored bad tracks still exit in the hard disk but just have been marked, so the system will not continue to visit it. However, since you keep on using hard disk, it is likely such bad tracks can expand. In this regard, to scan and mark the bad tracks can not eradicate this trouble. So, it is appropriate for you to back up disk data and rearrange partitions to format disk. commonly, if the problem of hard disk is just involved in logical bad track, to back up data is qualified enough to handle this problem completely. Of course, it is best that you apply Scandisk to detect hard disk again in DOS environment to make sure logical bad tracks are restored thoroughly after rearranging partitions and formatting disk.
In conclusion, to be honestly, the problem of hard disk is rather professional. You can have a try to fix them or let hard disk programs help you.
Optimize PC Performance—How Protect Hard Disk
Nov 26th
If you hope the computer can always work like new, you are supposed not to be too lazy to maintain your computer. As the storage of the computer, the hard disk like other computer parts also needs your careful maintenance. In this article, I would like to tell you how to protect hard disk in order to optimize PC performance.
In the first place, you should try to prevent bad tracks in the hard disk.
When starting up computer, it is impossible to pilot the hard disk even you use floppy disk or CD to start up computer, you can see those driver letter but cannot do any operations to this partition. If so, you should be aware that bad track is in it probably. Any bad track can damage hard disk, even it is just a cluster. On such condition, you should distinguish what kind of the bad track is and solve them respectively—run Scandisk program or replace and maintain it with retailer or manufacturer.
Secondly, you should pay close attention to guard against virus and Trojan programs. It is known to all that they are quite disaster for every part of computer. What is more, hard disk is the main objective of computer attacking virus. So, you should make use of anti-virus software to get rid of those viruses and maintain and back up important data and update such protecting programs in time. It is advisable for you not to use any unknown applications and to check virus and Trojan ahead of running them. The viruses are really headache for computer. You should prevent them from attacking the disks.
Thirdly, defragmentation is a good choice.
After using computer for a lot of time, due to the restoring and deleting of files, the files and available space have to become scattered in the hard disk. If you do not defragment them, the disk may reduce its restoring efficiency. And disk defragmenting program can put the files into continuous space and make the disk available space tidy and clean without taken up by fragments disorderly. You can start up the defragmenting program in the Windows or turn to third-party tools, such as “Advanced Defrag”.
Besides, you can let hard disk brainpower at rest.
If you can keep such function closed, it can do great help to facilitate hard disk working and expand using time. You can click “Control Panel” and choose “Power Management”. It is OK for you to set the time as fifteen minutes in the “Close down hard disk” column. It is better for you to protect the hard disk.
And for you, you should form a good habit of closing down computer correctly. The improper power shutdown can lead to violent attrition between disk head and disk surface. You should follow the normal computer closing down procedure. Any mistake or error in this regard may do harm to disk.
All in all, you should give your attention to daily hard disk maintenance. You can learn more ways to optimize PC performance.
Hard Disk Maintenance—How to Protect Hard Disk by Defragmentation
Nov 26th
Although your PC is still working very well for you, you can not treat it lightly. Computer is like all the other machines that needs careful and regular maintenance. Since there are many ways to optimize PC performance, I would like to introduce one of methods to help you improve computer performance.
As hard disk is storage of computer, you should learn how to do daily maintenance. When using computer, it is unavoidable for you to delete or copy a large number of files. Such operations are the main cause of producing plenty of fragments. And every complete file is restored separately in the disk. If system wants to fetch a file, it has to search the different parts of this file. So the computer has to spend more time in reading the file and increase operating time. Therefore, you should defragment your disks regularly so as to optimize PC performance.
You can use the defragmenting program of Windows to help you. Such tool can rearrange the files continuously so as to speed up disk reading and writing. It includes two functions: one is to clear up fragments and another is to start up optimization of items. Although they are quite practical, it really takes too much time to defragment completely. To be honestly, long-time and frequent defragmentation can do harm to disk and shorten the usage of hard disk as well. In this regard, I recommend you to use appropriative disk defragmenting software, such as “Advanced Defrag”.
Defragmentation is not only a good way to protect hard disk but also can optimize computer performance. It can collect those fragments and arrange orderly in the disks. At the same time, you should also make proper defragmenting schedule for disks. It is no doubt that too much defragmentation can do harm to disk and computer as well.
And, since using computer for a long time, there are certain troubles hidden in the disk. The lost of system files or damaged data are probably caused by bad disk tracks. Physical bad tracks may expand as more and more frequent read-write operations of disk head and result in an increasing number of bad tracks. At last, this disk with such bad tracks all over is unable to use any more. So, it is wise for you to back up important data in the disk as long as you find any bad track in it.
Well, bad hard disks track can divide into two kinds—soft and hard. You can fix the former problem by using certain software and continue to use the disk. But as for the latter one, it may expense certain disk space, even make the whole disk invalid. How to fix the two problems mentioned above? You can solve soft bad tracks by running the disk restoring tool of Windows or operating high level format to the disk, for example, you can right-click the disk drive and choose “Format” or right-click “My Computer”—“Manage”—“Disk Management”. But for hard disk problem, you have to turn to certain tools to help you.
In this regard, if you are not so skillful enough, you had better use special software to solve such problem.
Hard Disk Maintenance—Correct Methods to Maintain Hard Disk
Nov 25th
Even though hard disk is not the most important part of computer, you still need to pay close attention to maintain hard disk. If it goes wrong, you can not do any operation to files any more. So in this article, I will tell you How to use your hard disk in order to reduce bad tracks.
If you want to protect hard disk, the proper way is to protect it in advance rather than learn how to remove those bad tracks when the problem has happened. This is the correct way to expand the usage of hard disk.
First of all, you cannot turn off computer abruptly when the hard disk is still working.
Generally, working disks are in the high speed running. If the electric power is closed down during using computer, it probably leads to furious attrition between disk head and drive surface and mangle hard disk. Therefore, you should avoid abrupt computer shutdown as possible as you can. When closing down computer, you have to pay attention to whether disk indicator is on or not. Only after it turns off completely and finishes read-write operations, can you turn computer power off.
Secondly, you should keep dust away from hard disk.
Dust does great harm to hard disk. In the dusty environment, it is vulnerable for disk to absorb the dusty granule in the air. And such rubbish will influence the heat radiation and make temperature in the circuit increase greatly. Besides, dust can absorb water and erode electric circuitry in the internal hard disk to result in problems without rhyme and reason. Therefore, you must keep environment clean and reduce the humidity and dust in the air. It is a must for you not to open hard disk by hand. Otherwise, dust in the air can enter into your hard disk to damage disk surface or disk head when it performs reading or writing.
Third, you should prevent too heat in the hard disk.
Temperature can affect hard disk usage as well. When working, disks may produce and radiate heat for sure. Too high or low temperature can lead to many hard disk problems. It is advisable for you not to let hard disk get closed to any strong magnetic field and keep the air dry
You should defragment disk regularly.
In the hard disk, if you set or delete files continually, it can produce a pile of fragments. As those files gather too many day by day, it takes much more time to visit certain file in the future which can not only slow down visiting efficiency but also damage disk tracks. As a result, it is a must for you to defragment disk at proper intervals, no matter you use Windows defragmenting program or certain third-party tools. After defragmentation, you had better run hard disk restoring program to fix those iffy tracks.
As all the methods mentioned above, you may find that only the defragment disk has to apply certain tool rather than protect by computer itself. In order to maintain hard disk correctly, you cannot be too careful to use computer.
Hard Disk—Must Facts about Hard Disk Maintenance
Nov 25th
If you have ever suffered the computer prompt that there are disk errors, you can not miss this article, because I would like to share my understanding about hard disks with you. When checking files, computer may remind that there is disk error and cannot correct them. Solutions are all in this article.
The bad track of hard disk contains two kinds: logical bad track and physical bad track. The former belongs to software problem and usually results from the improper operation or usage of software; while the latter is the real physical bad track which means that there is physical damage in the hard disk tracks. If you want to solve this problem, all you can do it to change disk partition or the sector usage. Your hard disk is troubled with bad tracks probably on condition that the following problems have happened in the computer.
First of all, when opening, running or copying certain files, it is much slower to perform those operations than before. Even system may fail to do that or Windows system reminds you that it cannot read or write this file”. All of these can tell you certain part of hard disk is troubled with bad tracks.
If Scandisk program can run by itself when opening computer every time, it tells that many errors in the hard disk are needed to restore, such as bad track. And, if system cannot pass this running scanning program smoothly, bad tracks are hiding in the hard disk for sure. Well, it can pass but appear “B” mark which indicates the same problem as well.
During the process of booting computer to check automatically, if the screen reminds that “Hard disk drive failure”, “Hard drive controller failure” or something like that, it is the malfunction in the hard disk drive or in the disk controller hardware; if it prompts that “Sector not found” or “General error in reading drive C”, it means physical damage happen in the hard disk track. At last, if computer freezes up or appears the problem of broken files when running normally, it probably results from bad tracks in the hard disk.
How to maintain the bad track of hard disks?
Scandisk program is the most used tool to solve the problem of logical bad track. And you should be clearly that the Format order can do nothing to restore any bad track in the hard disk. So if there is any bad track, you can solve it by following the steps:
In “My Computer”, you can right-click the drive letter which is needed to scan and click “Properties”—“Tools”—“Check Now” in the Error-checking column. In the new tab, tick “Automatically fix file system errors” and click “Start”. It can scan the whole drive surface and fix probably broken clusters automatically.
Or, in the DOS state, if any bad track happen, normally computer run Scandisk program to check and mark bad cluster by red-letter of “B”(bad).
In the worst condition that system even cannot enter into such scanning program or Windows, you are still able to start computer by using floppy disk or compact disc and choose the same drive letter to scan and fix.
After reading this article, you can learn much knowledge about hard disk. if any problem mentioned above has happened in your disk, you should be very careful to take some actions to maintain hard disk.
Improve Computer Speed—Defragment Disk is Useful to Speed up Computer
Nov 18th
Slow computer speed should be the last thing that all the computer users want to see. But if it happens, what should be blamed for? Besides the virus or any mistake operation of computer, you may blame yourself as well. Why?
You may not know that every time you surf on the Internet or download any file or video from it, it can create a large number of useless files unavoidably; or you copy, remove and add any file, it can bring about the file fragments to the hard disks. It is inevitable for your computer to hold such junks, but you can do something to relieve the hard disk.
One piece of fragment can not have any influence on computer performance obviously, but if they pile up day by day, can you imagine how large number it may be. Such junks can slow down the running speed of computer because disk head has to come and go among different fragments which means it takes more time to finish searching task.
You can clear up junk files by deleting them in the systematic disk like “C”, or move them out of C disk by doing some changes in the “Registry Editor”. But as for such invisible disk fragments, it is impossible for you to delete them one by one. So you have to use specific defragmenting tools, no matter in the Windows or other ones like “Advanced Defrag”.
However, disk defragmentation is a rather tough task for the running parts in the hard disk. This is the main reason that why disk defragmenting program of Windows has to spend much time in handling this problem. If you fear that defragmentation may harm the hard disk, I can tell you definitely that correct defragmentation can do nothing but good to your computer unless the hard disk is in the most fragile and vulnerable state, defragmentation can kill disks probably. However even you do not cleanup disks, the disks can break up very soon. Therefore I suggest you to defragment disk once a month, it is much better for computer and hard disks.
Sometimes during defragmentation, you may find it is impossible to continue, usually in the ten percent or fifteen percent of it. What is wrong?
You should make sure that you have closed down any running program including screen saver, because other read-write operation can hinder the speed of defragmentation and even cause the program to start from the very beginning again and again without finishing the defragmenting task. As a result, if you want to do that smoothly, you are supposed not to perform any program during the process. But, if you do not want to wait so long, you can try a professional defragmenting program that is not only fast and efficient but also can complete the task perfectly.
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Hard Disk Maintenance–How to Protect Hard Disk
Nov 15th
To be honest, have you ever considered that your hard disks also need maintenance? They are just working quietly and draw little attention from you. Undoubtedly, the hard disk, like other parts of your computer requires consistent care and maintenance in order to work well. So, do not be lazy and do something to maintain your hard disk so as to protect it from any problem.
If permitted, you should update the software ceaselessly. It is necessary to do that. Normally, updating software can restore the BUG of old versions and reduce the errors in the applications or operating system. Therefore, to upgrade the hardware driver can maximize hardware performance and work better with the system. Generally speaking, you can download such programs from the manufacturer official websites or use professional updating programs.
And then, you should keep hard disk in a good state. Although disk is not the most important part of computer, it can lead to countless damages, even make system paralyze if it goes wrong and in BOOT area especially. Therefore, it is indispensable for you to maintain your hard disk. You can turn to certain specific disk scanning program to help you. They can scan the physical surface of the disk, check directory of file system and perform credible test to it. Ordinarily, if computer is closed down abnormally, it can lead to cluster loss in the hard disk probably. Windows may become quite unstable and system goes awry easily under such circumstance. So, you should maintain hard disk by scanning it properly.
Besides, you should get more understanding of your computer. You can click “Control Panel”—“System”, and in this tab, you can check the details of every part of hard disks and whether it work well or not. By doing this, you can learn how to protect hard disk according to different situations of the disks.
All in all, since hard disk is quite useful for your computer, you really need to maintain hard disks carefully.
In fact defragmentation disk is also a very useful method to maintain hard disk. This is because the defragmenting program can gather the file fragments and arrange them orderly in the disk. If too many fragments are scattered in the disk disorderly, it can hinder the disk performance, even computer speed obviously. So, you should take defragmentation into consideration. You can use disk defragmenter in the “All Programs”—“Accessories”—“System tool”—“Disk Defragmenter” to startup this defrag. To be frankly, it is too slow to complete defragmentation in time.
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Speed up Computer—Defragmentation is a Good Choice
Nov 4th
Undoubtedly, if your computer has been using for a long time, you may find its performance and speed are lowering day after day. What happen? Even there is not any virus or software problem in it. In fact, your computer is piling a mass of junks day by day but you do not take it seriously.
Just imagine that if a warehouse is totally in a mess, is it able to restore anything? And, you have to take actions to clean it up, even empty it. In this regard, if hard disk, working as the warehouse in the computer, is rough-and-tumble, how does it serve to restore the data safely and ensure the high speed of computer as before? So, you should clean up the hard disk as you do to the warehouse.
What makes the hard disk in a mess on earth? Disk fragment should be blamed in disordering hard disk. Actually, they are called file fragmentation. As the name suggests, if the files are restored separately in the different the spaces of a whole disk, it takes excessive time for the system to read them. In fact, they are supposed to put as continuous clusters in the disk. If not, the redundant file fragments can lower computer performance without question, because system has to spend extra time in handling the file fragments. I am sure that you do not want such unnecessary files to hinder computer speed and even harm the hard disks.
You may have been familiar with the defragmenting program in the Windows, that is you can click “Start”, point to “All Programs”—“Accessories”—“System Tools”, and then you can choose to defragment the disk. Well, if time permits, it is all very well for you to choose the Window’s defragmenting program though it is really sluggish. Thus, many computer fans prefer to use other professional tools instead of being annoyed by this slow defragmenting speed.
Compared to defragment disk manually, I recommend you to do it by using other tool which are more convenient and time-saving. Have you ever been tired of waiting for defragmentation and you can not do anything but just wait? The only solution to this is to speed up defragmentation so as to save a lot time for you, since defragmentation is also a way to speed up computer not to hinder it.
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