You must have noticed that your computer is getting slower than usual with time. Before you find this excuse and go to purchase a new laptop or a computer, you might need to get a more cost-effective and easy approach to make your computer run faster. The process is called the cleaning of the hard drive or Optimize Windows 10. Cleaning the hard drive is a few-step process; you can clean your Hard Disk Drives to free important and valuable storage space on your storage device. Defragging your Hard disk and properly removing the useless and invaluable data from the hard disk make it run significantly faster.
How To Optimize Windows 10 Hard Drive
Before you start optimizing your Windows and hard drives anything it is recommended to always back up your important data and files first. The best possible way to back up your data is on an external hard drive and an online cloud service for safer backup. Most of the famous cloud services are Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive, Apple iCloud, and Dropbox. Save your pictures on Google Photos it will ensure that your photos, and videos are safe.
How To Defragment Windows 10 And Mac OS
Whether you use Windows or Mac OS both operating systems provide built-in default applications to perform cleaning up the hard disk drives. Mac uses Disk Utility for Disk Cleanup, and Windows provides multiple utilities to clean up the hard disk drive.
Disk Utility that Mac gives you can manage both internal and external hard drives. You can organize and clean the data by creating different sections on your HDD, called partitions. Each formatted partition will show up as a separate volume or drive-in finder that can store your files. Disk Utility is quite efficient and it also allows you to combine multiple hard disk drives into a RAID (a Data Virtualization technique). If your storage is creating errors, you can either repair the partitions or erase the partition completely.
To run the Disk Utility in a MacBook, follow the steps below:
- Press the Command key + Space bar keys in combination to activate the Search.
- Type Disk Utility In the search field to open it.
- After the results are shown, select the Disk Utility from the search results.
To run the Disk Cleanup in the Windows 10 operating system, follow the steps below:
- Click on the Search icon in the Windows Taskbar to run the search.
- Click to open it.
- Select the drives and click OK.
- In the next windows, select the files you need to Delete and click OK.
Formatting And Reformatting Of The Disk
When you buy a new Hard Disk Drive or install an additional External Drive. First, you should format the storage to properly format the hard drive for Microsoft Windows 10 optimization. Generally, you will have to format your hard drive into the NTFS or FAT32 file system for Windows and APFS (Apple File System) for Mac OS. Most of the latest operating systems will need you to format the hard drive for it to be used.
If the hard drive is creating problems, reformatting might be a good option, but it can be the last option. The reason why I am saying this is because the reformatting will result in the loss of entire data from your disk including every app and driver installed on the disk. It can be a real challenge to reinstall all the apps so you should be really careful before taking any step towards reformatting.
Conclusion
The decision to optimize Windows 10 is always best to make your hard disk and Computer work faster. We discussed the methods for both Windows and Mac OS. Optimization is necessary as the system begins to work slowly and unnecessary data or bulk of data in every drive. Do optimize the hard drives and make your computer work fast.
