Windows 10 In Depth

25. Managing Hard Disks and Storage Spaces

Dealing with Hard Disk Errors

Our hard disks store our programs and, most important, our precious data, so they have a special place in the computing firmament. The new solid-state drives have no moving parts, so they’re extremely reliable, but the older mechanical drives ought to be pampered and coddled to ensure a long and trouble-free existence, but that’s rarely the case, unfortunately. Just consider everything that a mechanical hard disk has to put up with:

General wear and tear—If your computer is running right now, its hard disk is spinning away at somewhere around 7,200 revolutions per minute. ...