Lenovo IdeaCentre Q150 - Manual (Page 26)

User Guide
4.3 Cleaning Up the Disk
Do the following periodically to clean up the disks and possibly enhance your
computer’s performance:
1. Click Start → All Programs → Accessories → System Tools → Disk
Cleanup.
2. Choose the disk you want to clean up.
3. Click the OK button to start the cleanup process.
4.4 Checking For, and Correcting Disk Errors
To properly maintain your system, you should periodically check for and fix hard
disk errors by doing the following:
1. Right-click the icon for the hard disk drive (HDD) that you want to reorganize,
then select Properties from the pop-up menu.
2. Select the Tools tab, and then click Check Now.
3. Check your inspection items for the disk and click Start.
Note: You cannot start error checking until the computer is restarted and
initialized.
4.5 Defragmenting the Disk(s)
Disk fragments are tiny unused storage areas scattered on the disk. The system
cannot directly reutilize these “blank” spaces and system performance can
decrease as system operations usually cause the number of unused storage gaps
to increase. To defragment your disk storage, do the following:
1. Right-click the icon for the hard disk drive (HDD) that you want to reorganize,
then select Properties from the pop-up menu.
2. Go to the Tools tab from disk Properties and select Defragment Now.
3. Select the time and scheme to be used by the defragging program, then start
the defragmenting program. Depending on the amount of defragmentation on
the hard disk drive, this procedure can take a long time (sometimes more than
one hour).
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