How to install or replace hard drive?

• Perform disk error check often. Use "Disk Optimization" in Spotmau PowerSuite 2009 to perform disk cleanup, error checking, and defragment. Error checking can automatically find bad sectors and repair them.

• Recover Windows or data if system or disk crashed. "Use Data Rescue" in Spotmau PowerSuite 2009 to rescue your lost data from any hard disk even crashed disk.

• Backup! Backup! And Backup! Do not wait until your data or disk crashes! Use "Data Backup" in Spotmau PowerSuite 2009 to backup your important files or folders. Use "Clone Genius" in Spotmau PowerSuite 2009 to copy your entire hard drive including Windows, applications, and data to external hard drive or new hard drive. So with one click, you can restore everything to a new disk next time. No need to reinstall Windows and applications one by one.

• If you are replacing your primary hard drive, you can clone your old disk to your new disk. Clone means copying everything including Windows, software applications, and data. No need to reinstall Windows and software applications, which might take you half days. And if you lost the license keys for Windows or software, you are in trouble. You need bootable clone software. With Spotmau PowerSuite 2009, this can be done very easily. Spotmau PowerSuite 2009 is a bootable CD and provides "Clone Genius" under Windows and under Boot environment.
Lesson: Spotmau Clone Genius does save your time!

• If you are replacing your primary hard drive and you want to install a fresh Windows. Sometimes you have to go through these painful steps if your old hard drive is crashed or broken completely. The good thing about installing a fresh Windows is that a freshly Windows always run faster than an old Windows. Just like any human being, young people are always more energetic than senior because human being and Windows accumulate lots of toxic wastes (debris, corrupted files, obsolete trace files, registry errors, etc. in Windows). The good news if you can perform Windows cleanup and optimization on regular basis, your Windows can stay fresh and young forever. Use "Windows Optimization" in Spotmau PowerSuite 2009, you can always have a fresh computer running as smooth as the first time.

Lesson: Clean up and optimize your Windows as often as possible by using Spotmau Windows Optimization

Let's get back to installing fresh Windows. First and most important question is do you still have the license key for your Windows? A Windows license costs several hundred dollars. If you lost it, do not be afraid. We can get it for you. Spotmau PowerSuite 2009 provides a very cute tool to retrieve Windows license key for the Windows installed on your hard drive. This tool also works under two modes ¨C under Windows and under Boot environment. So if your Windows or hard drive crashed and you can not get into Windows, you can boot from Spotmau PowerSuite 2009 and takes you Windows license key out. Pretty cool!

Lesson: Keep track of the license keys for important software such as Windows and MS Office. They are not cheap!

Partition your hard disk first. Optimally arranging your disk allocation can boost disk performance. Arranging your system and data smartly can even save your life when Windows becomes unstable or crashes. One common partition way is to separate system (including Windows and software applications) from data by storing them in different partitions. If the system partition corrupted, you can still have your data unaffected. And recovering one partition is always faster than recovering the entire hard disk. Furthermore partition can let your computer run faster since it provides a higher level directory control in your disk. Imagining if your system knows the data needed to be used now is in certain partition, searching inside one partition is always faster than searching the whole disk. Use "Partition Genius" in Spotmau PowerSuite 2009, you can create, split, merge, and resize your partitions and even more. Spotmau Partition Genius works under two modes ¨C under Windows and under Boot environment. For a newly installed hard drive with no Windows, partition under boot environment becomes especially useful.

Lesson: Partition your hard disk. It makes your disk run faster and might save your life when something crashes.

• If you are installing a secondary hard drive, do not forget to format and partition your hard drive using "Partition Genius".