Every one us know Hard disk is none most important part of your PC. Due to technology enhancements and development hard disk has changed long way. Having a 1 Terra Byte hard disk (more than 1000 GB) in a personal pc is not a big deal now. So here are some good tips to keep your hard disk healthy and in good condition.

1. Avoid unwanted software/toolbar-this is important  because when you are on internet you may come up many number of sites which gives you offers like free screensavers, toolbars, antivirus and system tools. But unfortunate things are that most of them comes with adware’s and changes your system files and which can lead to crash or system full with errors.
2. Remove Hibernation: Hibernation feature is automatically activated when you get your pc installed. What hibernation does is, it saves your current system state which is in your memory and it creates a file called Hiberfil.sys which is large file.(in Gigabytes).But we don’t use need this feature  or only required when you are doing mission critical operations .So we can remove that thus escalating lot of free space. In order to remove it(turn off) à Windows Vista &Windows 7, click on  Start menu and type ‘power options.’  In the search bar. Select the Power Options entry. A window with Power Plan comes up; now click on “change plan settings” for current selects power plan. Now from the next box select “Change advanced power settings”. Now click the “sleep” entry to expand and then select the “Hibernation entry”. Click that select Never. This setting really saves lots of spaces in your hard disk. Thus decreases the OS load.
3. Arrange your files: Try to systematically arrange your files so that you system remains clean. Also now a day’s lot of laptop comes with singe drive. So when you fill up your hard disk space it can really become slow in seeking data thus making the whole system slow. Try to copy your data in a external HDD so that when ever you need it you can plug in and access your data. Portable drives are coming out with good capacity and sleek and elegant designs nowadays.
4. Remove temporary files: An old school rule .Remove the temp files which may have been created when you have browsed. Check internet options à In Browsing history click delete à you will get option for deleting temp files, browser cache and to make your IE fast also your system fast.
5. Keep recycle bin clean, nowadays we watch lots of movies, download heavy stuffs over internet and torrent. And we may delete these file also. But what we forget is to clean it from our recycle bin. It’s a better practise to keep your recycle bin clean. For this right the recycle bin and select empty the recycle bin.
6. Use disk defragmentation to segregate your files and make your hard disk and files compact.