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Hard Drive Maintenance

Your hard drive is filling up with junk and it needs to be cleaned up so that it can run smoothly again. After a while, your computer can get so slow that it is nearly unbearable to work on. If you get this problem, then I suggest you do some hard drive maintenance.

There are a number of steps that can fix this problem. Keep reading and you will come

Defragging your Hard Drive

Defragging your hard drive is a great step in hard drive maintenance. Over time your hard drive becomes more and more fragmented.

Disk Defragmenter is a tool that Windows Vista and Windows XP provide to clean up your hard drive. To learn how to do a disk defragment on your hard drive, go to this page.

Disk Cleanup

Another option for hard drive maintenance is the Disk Cleanup Option. This program allows you to cleanup your hard drive and remove excess program files, internet downloads and other stuff that is taking up valuable room.

For more information on Disk Cleanup and how to run it, please go to this page that describes the disk cleanup process for both Windows XP and Windows Vista.

Error Checking

If you are having heaps of problems with your hard drives, it may be worth testing the hard drive for errors. Simply go to My Computer, right click on the hard drive you would like to test and click properties. Go to the tools tab and you will see an option for error checking.

For more help on this, see this article on error checking.

Deleting Old Files

There is no Windows tool available for this, however this is just the process of going through your old files and deleting the unnecessary ones. You may have old programs that you no longer need, or you may have unnecessary backups of old files that you do not need. more

Help I've lost all my UNI work-Ram infotech

This is the type of call we often get from people who have lost academic work due to failed computer storage media. If you have spent years working on school, college or university work then discovered that the computer has failed or your memory stick is no longer recognised then you have come to the right place for help.

Over the years we have helped hundreds of students get their data back. From hard disks and memory sticks. We have also helped universities and schools recover from disasters such as flood and fire. In one case a school's main server was under 5 feet of flood water for an entire weekend and we recovered all of the data.

We can recover from

Hard disk drives, from computers and external hard disks

Memory Sticks including advanced memory stick recovery .. involves removing individual memory chips and accessing the data directly

SSD (Solid State Devices) We can also recover data from every other imaginable data storage system including RAID, VM machines, EPOS, CNC, Cameras, Photo Cards.