How Do You Defragment And Recover From Hard Drive Problems?
When hard drives save data, they do so in a disordered fashion, saving information in different places on the drive. Over time, this random saving of data can cause the computer to slow down because the amount of time it takes to search the drive for the data. To fix this problem, you can defragment your computer. The defragmentation process takes the randomly saved data and organizes it in an orderly fashion, enabling the computer to find it much faster than before. Click “Start,” select “All Programs,” go into “Accessories,” click “System Tools” and open the “Disk Defragmenter.” Select the disk you wish to defragment and click on the “Analyze” button (for XP) or the “Analyze Disk” button (for Vista/7). The analyzing process can take several minutes to complete, so be patient. Click the drive you wish to defragment (once the analyzing process has finished) and then click the “Defragment” button (for XP) or the “Defragment Disk” button (for Vista/7). Wait for the defragmenting process
