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places so that the mechanical arm can access data
faster and with the least amount of movement.
Another way to protect your hard drive from crashes is to
purchase a good virus scanner, preferably by McAfee or Norton,
and keep protection tools enabled and perform a full system scan
of every file on your hard drive once a month.
Some other minor precautions that you can take are to enforce a
SPAM guard on your emails and delete your temporary internet
files every once in awhile. You should also keep your operating
system up to date by downloading updates for it as soon as they
come out. Windows makes this easy, but I am not sure how easy
other operating systems make this or if they even provide this
option.
If you are a person who downloads a lot of files from the
internet, then you need to exercise caution in what you choose
to download, as hard drive crashes are commonly associated with
faulty software from unknown sources on the net.
Of course the best way to save you a headache if a hard drive
crash happens is to back up your data regularly. Data loss is
the reason a hard drive crash is so hurtful, so if you back up
your data daily or whenever you work on it, then if a crash
happens you will have no sweat on your back. I recommend you
save your files to a rewritable CD/DVD or floppy disc as soon as
you get done working on it, especially if the data is business
related.
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