Tuesday 27 September 2011

Hard disk drive - A reason of system crash or hangs and its solution in windows

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After a few weeks, the information on a hard disk drive starts to become piecemeal or fragmented. It is a good idea to defragment the hard disk every week or so, to prevent the disk from causing a screen freeze.
To do so go to

Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Defragmenter or right click on the drive then select properties -> navigate to tools tab -> select defragment now

This will start the procedure. You will be unable to write data to the hard drive (to save it) while the disk is defragmenting, so it is a good idea to schedule the procedure for a period of inactivity using the Task Scheduler.
The Task Scheduler should be one of the small icons on the bottom right of the Windows opening page (the desktop).

Some lockups and screen freezes caused by hard disk problems can be solved by reducing the read-ahead optimisation. This can be adjusted by going to

Start -> Settings-Control Panel -> System Icon -> Performance -> File System -> Hard Disk.

Hard disks will slow down and crash if they are too full. Do some housekeeping on your hard drive every few months and free some space on it. Open the Windows folder on the C drive and find the Temporary Internet Files folder. Deleting the contents (not the folder) can free a lot of space.
Empty the Recycle Bin every week to free more space. Hard disk drives should be scanned every week for errors or bad sectors. Go to

start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> ScanDisk

Otherwise assign the Task Scheduler to perform this operation at night when the computer is not in use.

You can also delete the temporary file from windows and also from user.
To do so open RUN window and type temp or %temp% and hit enter. Then delete all the file from the opened window.
It will free up some disk space.

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