MCSA/MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-270): Installing ...

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4. If Windows XP Professional displays a Disk Defragmenter dialog box, indicating
that you need to defragment your volume now, click View Report.
5. In the Analysis Report dialog box, scroll through the Volume Information box.
6. Scroll through the Most Fragmented Files box, and then click Save As.
Windows XP Professional displays the Save Defragmentation Report dialog box.
Notice that the default title for the report is VolumeC, and the default location for
the report is in the My Documents folder.
7. Click Save to save the report as VolumeC in the My Documents folder.
You are returned to the Analysis Report dialog box.
8. Click Defragment.
Disk Defragmenter defragments the volume. This process could take a long
time to complete, depending on the size of the volume and the amount of fragmentation.
9. Compare the Analysis Display with the Defragmentation Display.
10. Close Disk Defragmenter.
Leave the Local Disk (C:) Properties dialog box open for the next exercise.
Exercise 2: Run Check Disk
In Exercise 2, you run Check Disk to examine your hard disk for file system errors. If
any errors are found, you fix them. You also locate any bad sectors and recover any
readable information from those bad sectors.
1. In the Local Disk (C:) Properties dialog box, click the Tools tab.
2. In the Tools tab, click Check Now.
Windows XP Professional displays the Check Disk Local Disk (C:) dialog box.
3. Select Scan For And Attempt Recovery Of Bad Sectors.
4. Click Start.
It might take a few minutes to complete all five phases.
5. When prompted that the Disk Check is complete, click OK.
Leave the Local Disk (C:) Properties dialog box open for the next exercise.
Exercise 3: Run Disk Cleanup
1. In the General tab of the Local Disk (C:) Properties dialog box, click Disk Cleanup.
A Disk Cleanup dialog box appears, indicating that it is calculating how much
space you can free on the C drive.