The Hard Disk

Since our launch of unnecessary files, defragmenting the form of partitions to learn to keep your hard drive in perfect condition hard drive is where all your software and data stored. If the hard disk no longer works, you can end up losing all your data. What we do here is to take you. A quick tour through the different things you need to know about it, so you can continue to function optimally. What is the hard drive? The magnetic disk is a mass storage device installed in bays in the system. The hard drive can handle a large cabinet with shelves with several different themes perfectly organized and stored in each of themselves. The hard drive stores all the information you need to save on your PC operating system (eg Windows) program (for example, a dress UNRWA), businesses or homes data and applications, games, e - mail, address books and so on. A hard drive mount chain is nothing but a mass of magnetic media. The surface magnetic hard disk must be structured in specific areas where data can be stored properly, a process known as formatting. When you buy a new computer system comes with a hard disk is formatted. A hard disk should be divided into partitions before it can be used. The hard disk of a newly purchased computer is configured with one big partition, the partition (C: in My Computer) and an extended partition, which can be divided into logical partitions (D: E: and so on My computer), if necessary. Please call partitioning makes data more efficiently and reduce access times to retrieve data. The storage capacity of hard disk has increased by leaps and limits since the IBM XT first 10 MB of hard disk. Today, 10 GB is the entry level and 17 GB is common. The hard drive is connected to the motherboard of your computer through an expansion card, or a disk interface card. How Wok? The disk is formatted to share their surface concentric magnetic circular paths called tracks (or grooves in a record Grammofon) and in the form of so-called area Sliced sectors. The data is stored as a file or a disk sector groups called clusters. A player seeks to move its magnetic data read-write head to the specific way within a particular sector. When a new file is created on a new hard drive formatted, is entrusted to a group of numbers in order. If the file has been extended, and then the first group is assigned. When the file is deleted, the number of his group were simply marked as available. During a period where growth file size at the request of the group or deleted, perfectly ordered sequence of clusters is involved, a process known as fragmentation. Partitioning your hard drive partition divides a large hard disk into smaller virtual non-physical hard disk or partition, leading to effective use of space and increase the performance of your PC. Partitioning could be very useful in the following circumstances: 1-A-PC, the environment where people have more to work on the same PC, partitions can be attributed to each of them, so that each person has his own work area. This can be useful in the home, where you can have separate partitions for your spouse, children's games, applications and data, and so on. 2-Work on multiple operating systems-You can work on multiple operating systems on your PC, for example, Win98, Linux and Windows 95. (Maybe you have programs that work well in Win95, but suddenly crashed in Win98). You can keep these various operating systems safely on the same disk, install separate partitions. Partitioning tools There are several tools to partition your hard disk. Two of the most popular are: 1-PartitionMagic 4th version of Windows 95 and 98-Partition Magic from Power Quest is a useful and powerful software partitioning. Without problems, it moves, turns and resize partitions on your hard drive without having to reformat the disk erase data. 2-free Fdisk is a partitioning utility that runs in the DOS environment. The largest UPS is free. It is complicated to use and also requires formatting the hard drive (perhaps the greatest disadvantage). Formatting a hard disk As with most mechanical devices, use hard inevitable result of wear and dysfunction. Repeat to add and delete files that takes its toll on the hard disk, and you can get disk errors, including the famous critical flaw in Windows. This is an indication that May need to format the hard disk to function properly. But before you decide to format the disk can be useful for testing other-1-run Disk Defragmenter Use a 2-compensation of these asregclean.exe shareware available for download. But if after trying these options, pursuing a critical error, so you need to format the hard disk. The procedure is very simple format, but it must be done carefully. Formatting the hard drive, all data on the disk are lost on the Windows operating system, software, applications, data management, games, e-mails. In short, everything. How Windows 95 1 - Double-click the icon. Then click the drive icon you want to format. (eg C:) 2 - In the File menu, click Format and follow the instructions. Remember that you can not format a disk if it is to open files on the disk. If the disk has been compressed using DriveSpace or any other compressed disc. Windows 98 1 - Click Start, click Stop, click Start, then click OK. 2 - Press and hold down the CTRL key until the startup menu of Microsoft Windows 98 appears. 3 - Select the command line and press Enter. 4 - In the C: prompt, type format c: and press ENTER. 5 - Follow the instructions on the screen. After the format is left with a blank hard drive with more space than before. The next step is to restore the programs you need on the disc. 1 - First, install Windows and applications you use. 2 - Restore the backup files in the right. If you use a Zip drive or a CD, they must be installed first. 3 - Re-install all the drivers for your printer, modem or other external devices. Defrag has a file on your hard disk can be stored in one place or group. For example, if you create a Word document and make changes at a later date, change can be stored in another group of the original file. Most of the time you make changes to a file, the more disorganized, and the disk becomes fragmented. As a result, the magnetic head that reads and writes data to and from the hard, work harder for the whole file. The fragmentation of the hard disk that the efficiency of storage and access time to retrieve information. The process of defragging can reorganize the files and unused space on your hard disk, so programs run faster. Before defragging, can be a good idea to check the amount of hard disk is fragmented. You can do this by running ScanDisk. Temp folder and emptying the trash before defragging. Windows 95 and Windows 98 -: Open the Start menu, point to Programs, point to Accessories, then System Tools, then Disk Defragmenter. You defragging timetable will depend on how much you use your PC. A good rule of thumb is to defragment every two weeks. Make sure all files are closed, then a screen saver, too. Spring Cleaning There is no more space on your hard drive yet? Getting disk errors or illegal activity? Perhaps it is time to clean the disk. Some tips on spring cleaning to help. 1 - Mix reactions: Note all applications on your PC. Remove the old software if you install the latest versions. Go to Control Panel Add / Remove program, and the ability to uninstall programs that do not require. 2 - Run Scandisk: Scan Disk Windows option is very useful to address the issue that the loss groups, directory entries invalid and physical disk errors. Run ScanDisk once a month. Click Start, point to Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and select and then click ScanDisk. Click the drive that contains files and folders you want to control. 3 - Defrag often, once every two weeks. 4 - Empty Trash-click the Recycle Bin icon on the desktop and select Empty Trash down menu. 5 - Clean-folders: Do we really need to download all those who have committed themselves to a research project or a game that rarely plays? Delete files that are not necessary. 6 - Delete. Tmp and create more space on your hard disk. Close all applications. Go to Windows Explorer. Press the button to open the Find dialog box. Type *. tmp in the area. Make sure your C: drive appears in the search box. Include subfolders call. When. Tmp files appear, remove them. 7 - Delete temporary files NET to create more space. Go to the temp Internet Files folder in Windows Explorer. Delete all the files. 8 - There are several components of Windows on the hard disk that you can do without. You can remove these components in the Add / Remove option configuration of Windows and create more space on your hard drive, some components of Windows that are not necessary accessories as wallpaper ( savings of 700 KB) and games (Before you save a 600KB format.. 1 - Enter the hard drive specifications (number of cylinders, tracks, sectors, etc) in the PC BIOS in the configuration of the table to make available to software opening. 2 - Back up all important data to another hard disk, CD, Zip Drive, magnetic tapes and diskettes. If you have a kind of backup or are in a hurry, it Simply copy important files. Copy the e-mail and address books, too. When you backup, make sure they are ok. 3 - Backup folder you want to share with others through a network. 4 - Keep handy the installation disks or CD of the program you are using, such as Windows or Office package. They will be re-installed after formatting. 5 - Keep hands on the disk drivers for your printer, sound card, CD-ROM, modem or other devices. They will be re-installed after formatting. FAT made when the hard disk is formatted, a table of allowance files (FAT) is created on the disk. FAT keeps a record of the location of all files on the disk is FAT 16 file allocation system used in DOS and Windows 95 FAT 32 file system used on Windows 98 or Windows 95 OSR 2 FAT 32 is considered more efficient because it saves more space on the disc. Implementation of the hard disk to a large extent on the overall performance of a PC. HDD performance factors include data storage access time (the time it takes to read / write heads to find a position on the magnetic surface), the timing of the transfer of data (a measure of how many millions of bits per second can be transmitted from the disk into RAM) and reliability. Keep your hard disk to tip top condition and optimize performance. 1 - Create separate folders for each application, data or for each family member. This will his own record and organized. 2 - Avoid despite compression file compression increase the quantity of storage, but also significantly reduce system performance. 3 - Maintain free 10%. Always keep at least 10% of your disk drive without having to comply with more than 90% of its capacity to lead a system in decline and the potential loss of information. 4 - Run the Maintenance Wizard tool in Windows 95 and 98 What utilities run faster, which controls the hard disk for problems and disk space. You can to0 program running on a regular basis at some point, for example, once a week or any other interval you want. Home Maintenance Wizard, click Start , Point to Programs, Accessories, System Tools and click Maintenance Wizard. 5 - using a software to optimize the performance of hard disk, such as Symantec Norton Utilities. About the author Pawan Banga
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