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Have you ever tried to speed up your computer by defragmenting disk, but only encountered a mass of problems? If so, you cannot miss this article, because you can find the methods to solve the problems in it.

First of all, you should know how to defragment disks in the Windows. You can click “Start” > “All Programs” > “Accessories” > “System Tools” to start the disk defragmenting program, in the dialog box, you can choose one or all the disks to defragment and then click “OK”. During defragmentation, you can click “View Report” to see the current defragmenting process. But, if you cannot find such disk defragmenting program in the accessories, it means that you do not install it before. So you can install it by clicking “Start” > “Control Panel” > “Add/Remove Programs” to accomplish that.

Though you can use this program, if you use it incorrectly, it is vulnerable of problems. So, here are some tips for you to defragment smoothly.

It is a must for you to close down all the applications when defragmenting and not to perform any read-write operation. If this Windows program finds any such operation, it may start again and again.

You should defragment disk at proper intervals. Normally, the frequently-used disk partition is supposed to be cleaned up once a week, like C disk. As for the special disk, you even have to do that once a day. In other word, you should defragment different disks based on different using situations.

Some Windows system can rearrange the program files in the disk so as to quicken the program startup. However, such function is really time-consuming and inefficient. If you want to defragment disk frequently, you can cancel such function by clicking “Settings” in the driver choose dialog box and crossing out the option of rearranging the program files to speed up the program startup.

Now that we have a mechanism in place to return to “normal” if we break something, we should make sure that the hard drive is in good shape.

Here is what we do.

Go to “Start -> My Computer”

Right click on Disk (C:)

Select “Properties”

Select the “Tools” tab

In the “Error-checking” box select the “Check Now” button

Check the “Automatically fix file system errors” box and the “Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors” box

Click “Start”

You will get a message saying that the disk check can only be performed by restarting Windows and ask if you want to schedule the disk check for the next reboot. Choose “Yes” and restart your computer.

When your computer comes back after the check, if you have other hard drives or partitions, repeat the disk check on those as well. You will probably not get the warning message requiring a reboot for these disks or partitions, instead the check will just run.

If you have Internet access and your computer is still able to download files then you may want to get the free utility called HD Tune.

With HD Tune you can perform benchmark tests on your hard disk, examine any partitions there, check on the health of your disk as reported by the hard disk’s internal S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) software and perform an error scan on the drive. The HD Tune utility also displays the current temperature of the drive so that you can see if there may be any troubles coming up in the future.

If you do discover that there are problems then I am afraid it is possibly time to open up the wallet. If you do a search for “hard drive repair software” that should get you some good results.

If that method doesn’t fix it, then you have two options left, either send the drive out to a recovery company who may charge you hundreds of dollars and they will get what they can off the drive, or bin it and buy a new one.

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