How to Recover the Hard Disk Health Back on Windows 10/11 || Increase Performance and Hard disk life
5Hard drives are the most commonly used data storage devices in desktops, laptops, servers, etc. They are affordable, easily available, offer higher storage capacity, and are replaceable by the end-user. Also, when compared to SSDs with HDDs, SSD offers a longer lifespan—but with a lot of caveats.
Hard Drives are also prone to damage due to sudden shock or accidental drops. On average, a hard disk has a life of 3-5 years. However, a hard disk may fail anytime due to various logical errors and physical damage caused by human errors, hardware failure, virus infection, improper drive use, power surge, moisture, overheating, bad sectors, etc.
But with active disk monitoring, regular disk optimization, and adequate recovery measures, one can significantly increase a hard disk lifespan and prevent data loss.
[NOTE]: You should always keep at least two backup copies of your personal and business data like photos, videos, documents, important project assignments, emails, etc. on an external drive and cloud storage. A regular backup can save you from any data disaster.
1. Run Check Disk (CHKDSK) Scan
After a certain period of use, your hard drive will inevitably have errors such as partition table, file system errors, hardware or software issues, etc. These HDD errors consequently lead to a decrease in HDD life and data loss.
However, with a regular ‘chkdsk’ scan, you can fix most disk errors and improve the HDD lifespan. In addition, this command also retrieves readable information from bad sectors and remaps them besides fixing cross-linked files.
Follow the below steps to run CHKDSK scan and fix drive errors for longer HDD life:
Press Windows+S and type Command Prompt
Right-click on Command Prompt and choose ‘Run as administrator.’
Type chkdsk X: /r /f
Replace letter X with your hard drive letter and press the ‘Enter’ key
(SIMPLY YOU CAN TYPE CHKDSK CMD THEN STEP BY STEP DRIVERS LATER "C"D"F"
FOR EXMAPLE: "CHKDSK D:" THIS IS THE COMMAND FOR DRIVER D.
2. Perform Defragmentation
With time, your hard drive gets fragmented with data causing it to work slower, harder, and less proficient. Fragmentation deteriorates your hard drive health significantly, as new data is stored in fragments that cause massive movement of the read head and increase disk spin speed, which causes more wear and tear besides overheating—a major cause of drive failure.
Thus, it is necessary for you to defragment your hard drive once in a while to improve the overall health of your hard drive. To do so, follow the steps below and set your Windows system to defragment the hard drive automatically, either once every week or every month:
Press Windows + S and type Defragment
Click ‘Defragment and Optimize Drives’ to open the disk optimization tool
Alternatively, you can right-click on the drive volume within File Explorer and go to Properties...Tools tab, and click ‘Optimize.’
Select the hard drive and click ‘Analyze’
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https://www.hdsentinel.com/
This tool will guide u that how u can save ur hard disk life and much days left to expire your hard disk.!
watch the video step by step for proper guide.
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