Buzz
Within a computer, the hard drive (HDD) is a crucial component as it stores all your data, including important information such as bank account details, work-related data files, and more. Therefore, it's essential to pay attention to the care and maintenance of the HDD more frequently. However, not everyone knows the appropriate care methods, leading to many HDDs experiencing failures and user data being lost.
Guide to Checking and Maintaining Your Hard Drive with Ashampoo HDD Control
To utilize Ashampoo HDD Control for checking and maintaining your hard drive, you need to download and install the software on your computer.
After the installation, Ashampoo HDD Control 2 program will have an icon on the Taskbar, providing us with information about the hard drive parameters, such as the good condition of the hard drive at 98%, performance at 100%, operating temperature at 45%, and no detected issues.
Double-click on the Ashampoo HDD Control 2 icon on the Taskbar to reveal the program's management interface.
TabMonitoring.
Provides an overview notification of the hard drive's overall status. Health (Health), performance (Performance), temperature (Temperature).
Additionally, we can perform various tasks such as re-scanning hard drives (Re-Scan hard drives), refreshing the monitoring screen (Refresh), generating notifications in txt format (Write report), viewing S.M.A.R.T data reports (S.M.A.R.T data), hard drive information including partitions, standards, etc. (Information), surface testing (Test surface), hard drive scanning, extended scanning, etc. (Tools).
Tab Defrag.
Used to prevent fragmentation of partitions in the hard drive, we can choose the partition to operate on (C drive or D drive), then select operations with functions such as analysis (Analyze), start defragmentation (Start Defragmentation), stop defragmentation (Stop), proactive defragmentation (Pro-Active Defrag), pause defragmentation (Pause), refresh monitoring screen (Refresh Drives).
Tab Benchmark.
Options to initiate monitoring of the hard drive's power, read/write, in MB/Sec units (Start), stop monitoring (Stop).
Tab Drive Cleaner.
Featuring functions to find redundant files (Search), select and delete redundant files (Delete), stop searching for redundant files (Stop), select all files (Select All), deselect all files (Select None), filter redundant files such as searching only for pdf, java, temporary files, etc. (Show Files).
Tab Internet Cleaner.
Search for redundant files while using the browser, options include starting the search (Search), deleting files (Delete), stopping the search (Stop), selecting all files (Mark All), deselecting all files (Mark None), filtering and deleting redundant files specific to browsers like Opera, Firefox, Internet Explorer, or all (Browser), scanning Cookies, History, etc. (Objects).
Tab Data Recovery.
A function used to recover deleted files in partitions. We can choose the partition to restore files, then select functions to search for deleted files (Search), stop the search (Stop), and restore the file (Restore).
Tab Analysis.
Function used to analyze data in a partition. Simply select a partition (C or D) and start the analysis (Search). The program will provide us with charts about files such as Windows files, application files, Cache, etc.
Tab Data Destruction.
Function used to permanently delete files and folders. In this tab, we can perform operations on files and folders such as permanent deletion (Destroy), stop (Stop), delete all files and folders from the deletion list (Delete list), remove files and folders from the deletion list (Remove from list), add a folder to delete (Add folder), add files to delete (Add files).
Additional features include:
- Option: Set up basic functions for the program, such as interface, language, password, etc.
- Internet: Registering licenses, accessing websites, online support, etc.
- Help: Viewing version information, user guides.
In the context of the article, we've guided you on how to check and maintain your hard drive using Ashampoo HDD Control software. This significantly contributes to enhancing the lifespan and performance of your computer's hard drive, playing a crucial role in computer maintenance.
