Checking the health of your hard drive

Another oldie but goodie:

It’s important, especially on older computers, to keep an eye on the health of your hard drive. It goes without saying that you should have a plan to back up all of your personal data on a regular basis. That done, you should run the Check Disk utility, provided by Microsoft in both XP & Vista, on a scheduled basis to ensure that the health of your hard drive is good. If yours shows what appear to be serious errors and not just the “cleaning up of minor inconsistencies” you should keep a close eye on the drive to see if similar errors occur again. Your hard drive may be failing.

You can see how to run Check Disk by clicking below:

Running CHKDSK in Windows XP

Running CHKDSK in Windows Vista