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Maintaining and managing your hard drive

Maintaining and managing 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 utilities

By regularly using the following utilities, you can help maintain the

performance of your hard drive:

■

ScanDisk (Windows 98)

■

Check Disk (Windows NT)

■ Disk Defragmenter (Windows 98)

Using ScanDisk in Windows 98

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. ScanDisk checks the hard drive for bad

sectors or lost allocation units and lets you fix them.

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

My Computer

icon on the desktop. The My Computer

window opens.

2 Click the drive you want to check.

3 Select

File

, then

Properties

. The drive’s properties window opens.

4 Click the

Tools

tab.

5 At

Error-checking status

, click

Check Now

. The ScanDisk window opens.

6 Select the options you want for checking the drive.

If you want ScanDisk to check more than one drive, press and hold S

HIFT

then click on the additional drives in the list of drives to check.

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