Keeping a hard drive running at its best Computimes, 2 Edition

While a bigger, faster and more reliable HDD improves the overall computing experience of editing movies, playing games, or listening to music files on the PC, with proper maintenance and regular cleaning, users can optimise the storage capacity of their HDD. Tip 2: Scanning a drive for errors. Usin...

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Published inNew Straits times
Main Author Law, Felix
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Kuala Lumpur The New Straits Times Press (M) Berhad 21.08.2003
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Summary:While a bigger, faster and more reliable HDD improves the overall computing experience of editing movies, playing games, or listening to music files on the PC, with proper maintenance and regular cleaning, users can optimise the storage capacity of their HDD. Tip 2: Scanning a drive for errors. Using a utility such as ScanDisk can detect and repair errors on a hard drive and consequently improve data reliability. Scanning a hard drive is done to verify that the OS file and folder links on the drive are not corrupt. Tip 3: Partitioning a drive. How information is stored on a hard drive is managed by the OS. And, how the OS manages the information can be an issue. Therefore, partitioning is a great way to improve reliability of a hard drive with huge storage capacities.