Maintain And Manage Your Hard Drive; Hard Drive Maintenance Utility - Gateway E-5400 System Manual

Maintain and manage your hard drive

Regular maintenance can keep your hard drive operating efficiently and good
file management can keep your system free of unwanted files while making
important files secure and easier to find.

Hard drive maintenance utility

By regularly using Check Disk, you can help maintain the performance of your
hard drive.
Using Check Disk in Windows NT
Check Disk checks the hard drive for bad sectors or lost allocation units and
lets you fix them. Bad sectors are parts of a hard drive or diskette that will
not hold data. 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 Check Disk from once a week to once a month, depending on how often
you use your system. Also use Check Disk if you have any hard drive problems.
To use Check Disk:
1
Double-click the
2
Right-click the drive you want to check.
3
Select
4
Click the
5
At
Error-checking,
6
Select
drive.
7
Click
Start.
8
Follow any on-screen instructions for completing the scan.
My Computer
. The drive's properties window opens.
Properties
tab.
Tools
click
Check Now
Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors
Check Disk checks the drive for errors.
icon. The My Computer window opens.
. The Check Disk window opens.
Maintain and manage your hard drive
to scan the entire hard
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