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Chapter 14: Maintaining Your Notebook
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checks the drive for errors. This process may take several minutes.
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Correct any problems that are found by following the on-screen
instructions. After Windows has finished checking the drive for errors,
it provides a summary of the problems that it found.
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Defragmenting the hard drive
When working with files, sometimes Windows divides the file information
into pieces and stores them in different places on the hard drive. This is called
fragmentation, and it is normal. In order for the computer to use a file,
Windows must search for the pieces of the file and put them back together.
This process slows the hard drive performance.
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