Hard DrivesPosted by nabeelshaukat on October 14th, 2010 Check Hard Drive for ErrorsFollowing are some steps/procedures that need to be followed to check your hard drive.
1. Run chkdsk in read only mood. 2. Click on Check automatically fix file system errors. This option would fix bad sector problems. 3. Scan for and attempt recovery of readable information. This option would scan and then repair bad sectors. Hard Disk Health CheckGenerally, error detecting or scan disk software comes along with Microsoft Windows. Some hard drive manufacturing companies add specific error checking utilities, for example, Fujitsu diagnostic tool is a free disk checking utility which is useful for Fujitsu hard drives only. There are also many other tools to check hard drive health, so use them to check the health of your hard disk. How to Repair Hard Drives?Like other parts in the laptop, the hard drives are also susceptible to problems, and complications. You might have experienced different problems with laptop hard drives. If these problems arise frequently then do not worry, as with some simple steps and guidelines, you can diagnose, and fix the problem. If any hard drive related problem pop ups on your desktop screen, then you should diagnose the exact problem, by troubleshooting it. Another way to solve hard drive related problems is to organize the data on your hard drive. The operating system organizes the data that we load on hard drives, but sometimes this data is placed in an inefficient location of the hard drive, this is known as fragmentation. We must defrag this data to keep hard drive in good health. Following are some steps to defrag the data.
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