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By- Ronak Bokaria

Partition HDD

What is Partition ? In personal computers, a partition is a

logical division of a hard disk created so that you can have different operating systems on the same hard disk or to create the appearance of having separate hard drives for file management, multiple users, or other purposes.

How to partitions your HDD ?

• Open the Disk Management tool by selecting Control Panel> Administrative Tools >Computer Management

• Click Disk Management>and you should see a list of your existing drives and partitions (if applicable). To create a new partition, choose a disk that has free storage space, right-click it, and select Shrink Volume. Bear in mind that you can safely shrink only basic disks and set it to format with the NTFS file system.

• Type in the amount of space you want to shrink the disk by. The number you choose depends on what you want to use the other partition for.

Formatting HDD

Format actually means to prepare a storage medium, usually a hard drive, for reading and writing. When you format hard drive, the operating system erases all bookkeeping information on the disk, tests the disk to make sure all sectors are reliable, marks bad sectors, and creates internal address tables that it later uses to locate information.

What is formatting HDD ?

How to format HDD ?

Step to Format HDD ?

Go to “My Computer” Right click on any partition And an popup appears in that popup you find an option “Format” Click on it and a window will open

It will show you several option Like: - size of hard disk, File system, Volume label (NAME)

Usually we have to check only two option

• File system {FAT32, NTFS)• Format options {Quick format , full

format}

Now Click and Format DONE.

We can format partitions with MS-DOS also

open CMD And Type FORMAT (space) \\Drive name\\

Scanning a virus scan is a program which will go through the memory and every file on your computer and scan the contents to identify malicious code. This often can detect virus’s which have manifested themselves into existing files on your computer or viruses’ which have been downloaded and are housed within their own files. Viruses tend to attach themselves to or hide within other programs and program executables and this is what a Virus Scan looks for.

How to scan Folder/File/ DiskSteps to scan your computer or folders

Right Click on any file or folder you will see an option “scan” or “scan -------”

Click on that and a window will appears that shows us that the selected folder is being scanned.

DefragmentDefragmentation is like cleaning house for your PC, it picks up all of the pieces of data that are spread across your hard drive and puts them back together again. Why is defragmentation important? Because every computer suffers from the constant growth of fragmentation and if you don’t clean house, your PC suffers.

Disk fragmentation occurs when a file is broken up into pieces to fit on the disk. Because files are constantly being written, deleted and resized, fragmentation is a natural occurrence. When a file is spread out over several locations, it takes longer to read and write. But the effects of fragmentation are far more widespread: Slow PC performance, long boot-times, random crashes and freeze-ups – even a complete inability to boot up at all. Many users blame these problems on the operating system or simply think their computer is “old”, when hard disk fragmentation is most often the real culprit.

What is Disk fragmentation ?

Method 1: Use the Properties of Your Local Disk1.Open My Computer.2.Right-click the local disk volume that you want to defragment, and then click Properties.3.On the Tools tab, click Defragment Now.4.Click Defragment.Method 2: Use Computer Management MMC5.Start Computer Management MMC (Compmgmt.msc).6.Click Disk Defragmenter.7.Click the volume that you want to defragment, and then click Defragment.Method 3: Use Disk Defragmenter MMC.8.Start Disk Defragmenter MMC (Dfrg.msc).9.Click the volume that you want to defragment, and then click Defragment.

•It can defragment only local volumes.•It can defragment only one volume at a time.•It cannot defragment one volume while it is scanning another.•It cannot be scheduled. If you need to schedule disk defragmentation, use the Defrag.exe command line tool. For additional information about using the command line Defrag.exe tool,

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By- Ronak Bokaria