windows 7 - How do I preserve my internal HDD?

I have a Desktop computer, which I booted up after 5-6 months.

While using ir, updating Anti-Virus and other software. Voidtool's Everything.exe reported that there's some indexing problem in a folder, I was busy so I just OKed it.

Later I discovered that folder was reduced to 0 byte file. The system has 2 internal HDDs

• 250GB for 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate OS


• 1TB for media and important stuff

My questions:

1. I will be leaving for a long time again, what can I do to stop this aging process?


2. Is it advisable to physically remove the 1TB HDD (until I can buy an Ex-HDD), if so what precautions should I take in storing it?

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_{P.S. My home is kept clean, and no power outages are experienced}