Gateway E-5400 - Manual (Page 82)

Maintain and manage your hard drive 75
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 My Computer icon. The My Computer window opens.
2 Right-click the drive you want to check.
3 Select Properties . The drive’s properties window opens.
4 Click the Tools tab.
5 At Error-checking , click Check Now . The Check Disk window opens.
6 Select Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors to scan the entire hard
drive.
7 Click Start. Check Disk checks the drive for errors.
8 Follow any on-screen instructions for completing the scan.
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