Hard drive plays an essential part in the computing of your system because it non-volatile storage device that stores digitally encoded data on rapidly rotating platters with magnetic surfaces. A hard drive which is filled with errors can bring malicious programs into your system and steal your personal information and some other important data. To fix the problem, we have several tips for you:
Integrated Hard Drive Disk Diagnostic Utilities in Windows
Windows have offered you with several kinds of professional ways to test your hard drive problems:
The Integrated of Chkdsk.exe
Chkdsk (Chkdsk.exe) is designed to be a command-line tool that displays the file system integrity status of hard disks and floppy disk and can fix logical file system errors. The tool can repair any problems it finds. To use Chkdsk, you should firstly log on as an administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
Manual steps to run Chkdsk at the command prompt
1. Click Start, and go to Run.
2. Go to Open, type cmd, and then press ENTER.
3. Use one of the following procedures:
o To run Chkdsk in read-only mode, at the command prompt, type chkdsk, and then press ENTER.
o To repair errors without scanning the volume for bad sectors, at the command prompt, type chkdsk volume:/f, and then press ENTER.
Manual steps to run Chkdsk from My Computer or Windows Explorer
1. Double-click on My Computer, and then right-click the hard disk that you want to check.
2. Click Properties, and then go to Tools.
3. See Error-checking, select Check Now. A dialog box that shows the Check disk options is displayed,
4. Use one of the following procedures:
o To run Chkdsk in read-only mode, click Start.
o To repair errors without scanning the volume for bad sectors, select the Automatically fix file system errors check box, and then click Start.
o To repair errors, locate bad sectors, and recover readable information, select the Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors check box, and then click Start.
The following table lists the exit codes that Chkdsk reports after it has finished:
Exit code Description
0 No errors were found.
1 Errors were found and fixed.
2 Disk cleanup, such as garbage collection, was performed, or cleanup was not performed because /d was not specified.
3 Could not check the disk, errors could not be fixed, or errors were not fixed because /d was not specified.
Disk Cleanup
The Integrated Disk Cleanup utility offers you with professional help to compress the old files it finds and clean up any obsolete data in the form of old and temporary Internet files, program setup files, zero size files on the disk to make your hard drive error free. Follow the steps to run Disk Cleanup: Start > All Programs > Acessories > System Tools > Disk Cleanup.
Disk Defragmenter
Microsoft Windows Disk Defragmenter comes with a powerful disk defragmenter utility to remedy system sluggishness and crashes caused by disk fragmentation for fast optimization of hard disk. Follow the steps to run Disk Defragmenter: Start > All Programs > Acessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter.
