Using Hard Drive Maintenance Utilities; Using Scandisk In Windows 95 And Windows 98 - Gateway E-1400 System Manual

Using hard drive maintenance utilities

By regularly using the following utilities, you can help maintain the
performance of your hard drive:
ScanDisk (Windows 95 and Windows 98)
Check Disk (Windows NT)
Disk Defragmenter (Windows 95 and Windows 98)
Using ScanDisk in Windows 95 and
Windows 98
Bad sectors are parts of a hard drive or diskette that do not hold data. ScanDisk
checks the hard drive for bad sectors or lost allocation units and lets you fix
them. A lost allocation unit is a group of sectors that has lost its place in the
table that the operating system uses to locate files.
Use ScanDisk from once a week to once a month, depending on how often
you use your system. Also use ScanDisk if you have any hard drive problems.
To use ScanDisk:
1
Double-click the
window opens.
2
Click the drive you want to check.
3
Click
File
4
Click the
5
At
Error-checking status,
6
Select the options you want for checking the drive.
If you want ScanDisk to check more than one drive, press and hold S
and click on the additional drives in the list of drives to check.
7
Click
Start
8
Follow any instructions on screen for completing the scan.
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Managing Your System
My Computer
and then click
Properties
tab.
Tools
click
. ScanDisk checks the drive for errors.
icon on the desktop. The My Computer
. The drive's properties window opens.
. The ScanDisk window opens.
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