Daily maintenance rules for computer hard drives under Windows

1. Do not turn off the power when reading and writing the hard drive

When reading and writing a hard disk, the disc is in a high speed rotating state, if the power is forcibly turned off, it will cause the head and disc to rub violently, thus damaging the hard drive. Therefore, in the shutdown, be sure to pay attention to the hard disk light on the panel, to ensure that the hard disk after reading and writing off the machine.

2. Maintain clean and hygienic use of the environment

The dust will be adsorbed to the surface of the hard disk printed circuit board and the internal of the spindle motor by excessive dust in the working environment. The hard drive works in a more humid environment, reducing the insulation resistance. These two phenomena may cause the computer to be unstable, heavy will cause some electronic devices to damage, or some of the dust-sensitive sensors can not work properly. Therefore, we should keep the working environment clean and reduce the dust content in the air. In addition, users can not open their own hard disk cover, otherwise the dust in the air into the disk, the head read/write operation of the scratch disc or head of the possibility will be greatly increased, so hard disk failure in the ordinary conditions should not be allowed to open open body shell screws.

3. Prevent vibration

The hard drive is a very sophisticated device, and the magnetic head is only a few microns on the platter surface when working. When not working, the head and the disc are in contact. Hard disk in the read and write operation, once a large vibration, it may cause the head and data area impact, resulting in the disc data area damaged or disk, and even lost the hard drive file information. Therefore, in the work or shutdown after the hard drive spindle motor has not been shut down, the large mobile laptop is strictly prohibited, so as to avoid the hard disk's head and disc impact, scratch the disc surface of the magnetic layer.

4. Prevent environmental humidity and the influence of magnetic field

In the humid season when using notebook computer, should pay attention to make the environment dry or often to the system power, by its own heat emitted by the steam evaporation in the machine. In addition, as far as possible not to make the hard drive near the strong magnetic field, such as speakers, speakers, motor, radio, etc., so as to avoid the hard disk recorded data due to magnetization and damage.

5. Prevent computer viruses from destroying the hard disk

Computer viruses are a great threat to the data stored on the hard disk, so you should take advantage of newer anti-virus software to detect the hard disk on a regular basis, and find a virus that should be removed immediately. Try to avoid formatting your hard disk because the hard drive format loses all data and reduces the life of your hard disk. When copying information from a foreign floppy disk to the hard disk, the floppy disk should be checked first to prevent the hard drive from catching the virus.

6. Reasonable zoning

The size of the hard disk partition does not seem to have much to do with the maintenance of the disk, but the reasonable or not, in fact, and future maintenance, upgrade the operating system and optimization, and so closely related, must not be overlooked. Setting the appropriate partition size at the outset eliminates a lot of unnecessary hassle and facilitates future management.

7. Defragment the disk

For some users, disk defragmentation seems to be a daily thing, but if you are storing the system's virtual inside a separate partition, the Win386 generated by the Windows system. The SWP will be generated in a continuous blank cluster, and it is always the case. As a result, disk fragmentation generated by virtual memory does not exist, which eliminates a large source of disk fragmentation. Also, because the impact of fragmentation on audio, video file playback can be almost ignored (playback speed and quality depends on the memory buffer settings and CPU capabilities), if the user is not a large number of write and delete files, generally only C disk because the browser will produce disk fragmentation (system default path, if changed, You should tidy up the partition where the temporary file is located, and then tidy up the C disk. The rest of the song MP3, video and game zoning, one months or even two months to clean up the line. Because the speed of the system depends on the partition of the operating system, as long as the Windows system files in C disk are kept in order, the data structures of the other partitions have little effect on the system speed and stability. Of course, if users also have files that you want to edit or modify frequently in other partitions, you should always organize those partitions.

8. Try not to use hard drive compression technology

Previously, in small hard disk space, we always find ways to save hard disk space, the common way is through DoubleSpace, drvspace command to compress the hard disk space, but when the compressed volume file gradually increased, this method has a very obvious disadvantage, That is, the speed of hard disk reading and writing data is greatly slowed down. With the rapid development of hard disk technology, the capacity of the disk is also climbing, so it is difficult to have hard disk space often insufficient use of the situation, we do not need to use hard disk compression technology.

9. Backup hard disk partition table

Backing up the hard disk partition table and checking the integrity of the backup is also important to protect the data on the hard disk, because the Windows operating system is damaged and can be reload, and if the hard disk partition table is broken, the system will not recognize the hard drive and the problem is much more serious. We can use tools such as KV3000 or Ghost to back up the entire Windows system partition into a single file and store it separately, and then write it back to C when a hard disk error occurs due to a problem with the hard disk partition table.

Furthermore, the newly installed Windows system, after 2, 3 months of use, in any case optimized, to maintain the original speed is almost impossible, and if we back up the entire Windows system partition, the regular write it to C disk. In summary, backing up a partition and overall Windows state is more problematic than backing up several registry core files individually, and is relatively straightforward to operate.