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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–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.
As a result, if you want to save your time and energy, I recommend you to use a professional defrag to help you. Such defrag is tested by many computer experts thousands of times with high defragmenting speed and perfect result. You are welcome to use it.