If your computer creating problems to read/write on the hard drive or may become unstable then it is possible that some lost clusters and bad sectors are on your hard drive. To check your computer hard drive for any errors, you can use scan disk utility. You should scan your hard disk on regular basis to maintain the status of missing cluster and bad sectors. In windows 2000 and XP, you can use the error-checking tools to check the health of your hard drive.
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Follow the given steps to run the error- checking tools:
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First open the My Computer then right click on any drive that you want to check.
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On the right click menu select the Properties option.
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Here select the Tool tab then run Check Now in the Error-checking dialog area.
- Under check disk options you can select both check box ”Automatically fix file system errors” and “scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors” then press Start button.
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This test will prompt you, if there is any problem on your hard disk and automatically fix it now.
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