The New Feature of Windows 10 Will Warn if Your Drive is About to Fail

One of the most common scenarios is trying to recover all your data from the solid-state drive (SSD) that has unfortunately failed. A solid-state drive is a storage device that stores all your data, functioning as secondary storage in the ranking order of computer storage. What if your SSD faces an untimely end without you having a backup of all the data stored on the disk? Luckily, Microsoft will come up with a feature that is all set to save you from real issues like losing data. It will alert users about the impending drive failure. The new feature will come in handy with the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20226, which is designed to figure out hardware malformation for NVMe SSD. Not only this, but it’ll offer a notice when it figures out a risk of failure. If an error is confirmed, the users will be advised to create a backup of their data as soon as possible. The most convenient part is getting notified earlier so that you have enough time to create cloud storage.

A Windows blog post mentioned about the working of the new feature. It says that whenever you click on the notification that flashes information regarding the potential hardware failure, it’ll lead you to the Storage Settings menu. The user can further view detailed information on the SSD in addition to the remaining life in the ‘Manage Disks and Volumes’ section in the Settings menu. In case you want to view the information by manually hopping to the settings menu, follow the steps mentioned below:

• Launch the ‘Settings’ app on your Windows PC.

• Select the ‘System’ tab from the menu.

• Click on the ‘Storage’ option in the left toolbar.

• Locate the ‘Manage Disks and Volumes’ option and click on the same.

• Go to the ‘Properties’ section and view the detailed information.

The ‘Drive Health’ screen will appear, which presents the estimated remaining life of SSD in percentage. It feels so secure that all the Windows 10 users will be able to save time, money, and a lot of effort from potential failures of your SSDs. All the credit goes to the new feature to which Microsoft is paying complete attention. Also, the new Preview Build 20226 is the new device management settings launched for the ‘Your Phone’ feature, which enables Android users- Samsung users, for the time being, to use all the Android apps from their Windows 10 PC. In simple words, it means that you can manage to remove a phone you’ve linked up with an app, or another device, and switch between your previous supported devices. Well, it is not over yet! Microsoft has also brought a change that disables the syncing of themes and enables the Notepad app to remain active while all the Windows updates or restarting. In addition to all the new features coming up with the update, it’ll also work on fixing the bugs whatsoever and improving the performance of your system. Sounds great, right? The new update will bring the best features ever, so keep yourself updated regarding the same to be the first one to give it a try.

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