System Maintenance

Routine, planned maintenance can prevent problems or minimize the effects when they occur. For example, if there are file system problems, you might not know about them until you restart the computer, when Chkdsk alerts you to the errors.

System administrators need to check both the system and application event logs daily. Impending file system problems can show up as errors in the system log before the file system is corrupted. Investigate any messages in the event log from FTDisk, Dmio, or disk device drivers.

Because disk fragmentation can cause performance problems, consider running a defragmentation program on a regular basis. You can use the Disk Defragmenter that is included with Windows 2000, or you can use a third-party defragmentation utility that runs under Windows 2000 and can defragment file allocation table (FAT) and NTFS file system volumes.

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