Preventive maintenance procedures increase
the performance of your computer that is
affected due to disk fragmentation.
In some operating systems, data files that are over
a certain size are scattered among various
clusters. Accessing these files is time
consuming because all clusters are searched
to put the files together. Because the data
is spread across the drive, fragmentation
occurs. Bad clusters, on which you cannot
perform read/write operations, also need
to be recognized and marked so that applications
do not use them. All these problems can
be prevented by using software utilities
that safeguard the data stored on your computer.
These utilities are:
 |
Disk Defragmenter |
|
ScanDisk |
|
CHKDSK |
