How To Manage Drives Using Drive Tools

In the previous post, we have discussed the possible problems and their solutions while operating a computer and its windows operating system. In this post, I am going to write some ideas or tips to manage drives using drive tools in windows. Drive tools manage drives which help to run them smoothly. You can optimize the drive to defrag them, run clean up to remove unnecessary files, and format to remove all files from drives.

Here I have explained in detail with steps to manage drives using drive tools.

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How to Format Drives in Windows

You can format the computer drives along with removable drives like pen drives if they contain lots of unnecessary files or disk contains viruses or have any problems on computer disks or removable disks.

Here are the steps to format your Drive

Go to “My computer” and select the drive which you want to format
Click on the Format option located on the manage tab
Under the format option, dialog box choose the type of format you want to do
Click on the Start button to start formatting.

OR you can format the drive just by right-clicking on the drive and selecting the format option.

How to Optimize Drives in Windows

You can optimize your drives to help your computer run more efficiently. At first, you can analyze the drives to find out if they need to be optimized or not and then optimized them. In the optimization process, the fragmented files are compressed and make more space available on the disk.

Following are the steps to optimize the disk.

Open My computer-select the drive and click on Optimize option located on the Manage tab.
Then, the drive optimization dialog box will appear.
Click on Analyze button to analyze the disk and click on Optimize button to optimize it.

How to Optimize Drives Automatically

You can optimize the drives automatically by scheduling them. For this,

Open the drive optimization dialog box as mentioned above and then click on the “Change Setting” button.
After that, choose the “Run on a schedule” option and also select its frequency then choose drives for optimization.

How to Computer Clean Up

You can clean up your disks or drives to speed up your computer, here are the steps to clean up your disk. You can do it by selecting respective drives and doing clean-up using drive tools.