Have you 'Care' with your computer hard drive? check and do some of the following hard drive maintenance rules:
- Get used to Shutdown
Turn off the computer by procedure, ie run Shutdown or Turn Off. Avoid turning off the computer directly, ie unplug the current on the computer that is active. This will make the hard drive broken or damaged.
- Check the Electric CurrentMake sure the electrical conditions at home or office computer location is in a state that is always stable. If the power supply is unstable, the up-and-down voltage often automatically turns the computer off, immediately complete your computer with a stavolt (stabilizer voltage) or even better with an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS). The UPS is capable of running the computer between 10 to 60 minutes after power failure, depending on the load it carries. Time is enough to save your work as well as to shutdown the computer in a procedure for the safety of the hard drive.
1. Hardisk Physical Care Tips
Here are some tips on maintaining the physical hard drive:
Avoid shocks and impacts on computer hard drives that cause the head to hit an undue platter and damage the hard drive.
Do not connect the hard disk cable when the computer is on, so as not to occur on the hard disk konsleting. Attach the hard drive when the computer is off.
The temperature of the PC includes the hard drive within reasonable limits. Although trivial, excessive heat can burn the hard drive. Install enough fans to compensate for air circulation in the CPU.
2. Digital Care Tips
Digital treatment in question is to take care of the contents or data in the hard drive using some special utility.
- Clean the hard drive from the registry garbage (note the settings of a program stored by OS or Windows) that remains even if the program is already uninstalled. Do it regularly to clean the hard drive.
- Rework or tidy the position of data in the hard drive, either manually or using the program.
- Perform checks on the condition of the hard drive using some special programs.
- An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Get used to always make backups of important data.
- Do not store too many files on a particular partition. Provide at least 20 MB of freespace space. This will make the PC slow in running applications on the computer.