Dec
2
2009
10 Ways To Speed Up Your PC Guaranteed! – Number (5)
Author: adminIn this section, we will focus on detecting and repairing hidden problems on your Hard Drive
5. Scandisk!
One of the most some-what common and hidden problems that contribute to sluggish PC performance can be repaired or atleast recognized by the system as faulty. Doing so will help the system by-pass that region on the hard drive and move the data from the bad areas to much healthier ones. Much more technicality go into this process which we will skip ofcourse 
This procedure is easy and will require you to select an option (See figure 1 below) and restart your computer and allow up to an hour or two (at times) for the process to fully complete. Make sure you do not press any keys when you’re prompted that Scandisk is about to run on your system (See figure 2). This utility is built into all Windows versions – Both Windows XP and Vista have the same procedure to perform the scan
Windows XP and Vista
1. From your desktop, double click the My Computer Icon – In Vista: Click Computer
2. In the My Computer window, right click on your C: Drive and click on Properties then on the next screen click the Tools button
3. Under the Error Checking section, click on Check Now
4. You will have 2 buttons under the Check Disk Options, select both options
5. The system will inform you that it cannot perform the disk check and will schedule it for the next reboot. Click Yes and restart your machine.
6. Once the machine has restarted, allow the scan to go through fully (Figure 2). If you pay attention to the scan process and specially the result data displayed at the end, pay attention to the section under Bad Sector / Bad Clusters. If the result shows anything but 0 (Zero) then this will be your first indicator that your hard drive is on its way to fail / crash some time soon. Time to buy a new hard drive and get your data copied over to the new hard drive. This could be a nightmare for some users and some inexperienced IT professionals. You may contact us – HelpDeskAssist.com to assist you in the migration process from the old hard drive to the new one.
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