Court Reporters – Computer Maintenance: Error Checking
Court Reporters And Their Computers – Error Checking
By Quinn Compeland, Computer Expert
When data is being added to and deleted from a hard drive, eventually areas of the drive may become unstable and possibly unreadable. When this happens, your system may experience more lag than usual – and it could take a long time to boot as well.
Error Checking scans the hard drive for bad “sectors” and attempts to fix the sector or move the files off of the bad sector. If the sector has been flagged as unreadable, the computer will avoid putting files into that sector. There are other things that can be done to recover the sector, but they are called low level formatting and destroy all data on the drive.
When you want to run an Error Checking (also known as CheckDisk), right click the hard drive and choose Properties. Go to the Tools tab and click on the button Check Now. Check both of the boxes and click on Start. Note – this process will not run on the Windows partition until the computer has been restarted – it should prompt you to schedule it after the next restart if that is the case.
During the next boot, you should see a blue screen appear with a status of the current scan. The less errors you have, the faster this scan will be. This scan can easily take one hour to run.
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