Gateway ALR 8000, User Manual

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Maintaining Your System 23
Because the Thorough option takes more time than the Standard option,
we recommend you normally use the
Standard
option and do a
Thorough check at least once a month.
4.
If you selected
Standard
and you want to change the settings
ScanDisk uses when it checks files and folders, click on the
Advanced
button, select the options in the ScanDisk Advanced
Options window, then click on the OK button to close the window.
If you selected Thorough and want to change the settings ScanDisk
uses when it checks the disk’s surface, click on the
Options
button,
select the options from the Surface Scan Options window, then click
on the
OK
button to close the window.
5. If you want ScanDisk to automatically fix any errors it finds, select the
Automatically fix errors
option in the ScanDisk window.
6.
Click on the
Start
button in the ScanDisk window.
When the scan is complete, the ScanDisk Results window opens
giving you details of the scanning operation.
7.
If you want to scan another drive, click on the
Close
button to return
to the ScanDisk window, select another drive, then go to Step 6.
8. When you are finished using ScanDisk, click on Close .
Using Disk Defragmenter
The Disk Defragmenter program helps maintain the integrity of your hard
drive by rearranging files so that unused space on your hard drive is not
scattered around the drive, but is contained in one contiguous area on the
disk. You may notice, after running Disk Defragmenter, that your programs
run a little faster and more efficiently. That is because the hard drive head
can go directly to the data it needs instead of skipping around to different
places on the disk to find pieces of data.
We suggest you run Disk Defragmenter at least once a week to once a
month, depending on how much you use your system.
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