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The maintenance tasks for hard drive deal more with optimising its storage than cleaning. The preventive maintenance tasks for a hard drive involve the following:

  • Back-up the data
  • Run diagnostics like Scandisk and manufacturers' diagnostic tools.
  • Defragment the drive;
  • Disk Defragmenter ->> right clicking the drive in Windows Explorer and selecting Properties, then Tools
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