Owner's Manual

CHAPTER 12: Maintaining Your Notebook
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Checking the hard drive for errors
Help and
Support
For more information
about checking the
hard drive for errors,
click Start, then click
Help and Support.
Type the keyword
checking for disk
errors in the Search
box, then click the
arrow.
The Error-checking program examines the hard
drive for physical flaws and file and folder
problems. This program corrects file and folder
problems and marks flawed areas on the hard
drive so Windows does not use them.
If you use your notebook several hours every
day, you probably want to run Error-checking
once a week. If you use your notebook less
frequently, once a month may be adequate. Also
use Error-checking if you encounter hard drive
problems.
To check the hard drive for errors:
1 Click Start, then click My Computer. The
My Computer window opens.
2 Right-click the hard drive that you want to
check for errors, for example Local Disk (C:),
then click Properties. The Properties dialog
box opens.
3 Click the Tools tab.