Monday, December 31, 2012
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Thursday, December 27, 2012
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Sunday, December 23, 2012
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Sunday, December 16, 2012
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Thursday, December 13, 2012
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Sunday, December 9, 2012
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
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Sunday, December 2, 2012
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Saturday, November 24, 2012
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012
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Friday, November 16, 2012
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Sunday, November 11, 2012
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Monday, November 5, 2012
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
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Saturday, October 27, 2012
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Saturday, October 20, 2012
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Monday, October 15, 2012
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
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Saturday, October 6, 2012
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Monday, October 1, 2012
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
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Sunday, September 23, 2012
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012
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Friday, September 14, 2012
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Sunday, September 9, 2012
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
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Sunday, August 26, 2012
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Friday, August 10, 2012
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Monday, August 6, 2012
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Thursday, August 2, 2012
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Monday, July 30, 2012
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Monday, July 23, 2012
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Thursday, July 19, 2012
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Monday, July 16, 2012
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Monday, July 9, 2012
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Thursday, July 5, 2012
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Sunday, July 1, 2012
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
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Sunday, June 24, 2012
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012
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Saturday, June 9, 2012
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Monday, May 28, 2012
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Sunday, May 20, 2012
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
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Saturday, May 12, 2012
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
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Saturday, May 5, 2012
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
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Friday, April 27, 2012
Tips For Buying Computer Components - External Hard Drive
There is no doubt that an internal hard drive is one of the most important computer components that allows a computer to function smoothly. An internal HDD allows data to be stored on to the computer but at times when the data that is to be stored is too much then other computer components need to be purchased to prevent loss of data. An external HDD is very similar to an internal HDD except for the fact that this device is located outside the machine. This article is going to provide tips to help you buy important computer components like external hard drives.
HDD's can be used to store data like pictures, music and videos but these computer components can also be used to make a back up of the data on the main computer. Depending on your requirement you will need to select an external HDD that can store all the data and have space for a little more in case of an emergency. The external HDD that are sold by companies like Transcend, Maxtor, Western Digital and Seagate have a memory of 100 Gigabytes to up to1 terabyte.
External HDD are computer components that can either be bulky or small. Portable external hard drives are as big as or a little bigger than a digital camera but these devices often cost more than bulky external hard drives. Depending on your requirements and available space you will need to decide which external hard drive is suitable for you.
Components like external HDD support two types of connection modes. While most external HDD work through USB connection, some external hard drives work through fire wire. While fire wire allows faster transfer of information, not all computers have the fire wire option and it is important to know what connection type your computer supports before you buy an external drive.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
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Friday, April 20, 2012
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Monday, April 16, 2012
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Friday, April 13, 2012
Sunday, April 8, 2012
PC Hard Drive and Internet Files Storage
When we go to a specific website, it is highly possible that there is some data about our surfing habits, what sites we visit often etc stored in the hard drive. Some of this data is needed by eCommerce sites as part of a regular business transaction.
A folder in the HDD stores this information as temporary Internet files. Your temporary internet files stored the data. The hard disk is equipped for temporary Internet files that have been downloaded. The temporary Internet file helps in the storing of data. Storage of the files cached off the Internet is temporary in the hard drive. The information downloaded from the Internet is only meant to be stored for a short while before it is used and so the hard drive is also designed for such.
You can temporarily store the data gotten from the Internet in your hard drive. To enable you connect more easily to a particular website that you have visited previously, the data can be temporarily stored unto your hard drive. Access to information from an Internet website can be stored in your hard drive for the short while it takes you to come back around to use it. With the information already on your hard disk you can easily gain access to the website of your choice whenever you are ready.
The stored up information in your temporary files give you a faster and easier entry into the Internet at any time of your choice. The capacity of the hard disk drive is further enjoyed when you find out how easily you gain access to a site whose information is previously stored in your cache. The running speed of a computer is in fact a part function of the percentage of its storage that is in use so it's thus wise that unneeded data, especially those in the temporary Internet files no longer in use, should be gotten rid of.
To keep your computer from being bogged down by an overload of obsolete data, keep it free by deleting such files that use up temporary Internet files. I will advice that, for smooth and unhampered running of your computer, once a file has outlived its purpose, you rid yourself of it before it begins to bog your system and slows you down.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Saturday, March 31, 2012
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Are Hard Drives Better for Backups than CD/DVDs or Tapes?
Tapes have issues and so do CD/DVDs. Well, on thing is for sure. These are better than nothing. In fact, a thumb drive or USB drive is better than nothing but weigh all of the facts before you come to any conclusion.
First, tapes wear out. I do not care what the manufacturer says a tape will wear out. just read the fine print and you will see. In fact, tape drives wear out faster than hard drives plus they get filthy. ow you have to buy more tapes and special cleaning tapes. Remember, it is not safe to have just 5 tapes you do need more than that.
Second, CD/DVDs can wear out. It is true a tape can be zapped with a magnetic but a CD/DVD should not be hurt by one. But remember, this medium had a focussed laser or light add the data to the disc. So over time, light can affect the disc.
I mentioned a thumb drive as being better than nothing and while that is true they have their own major issue. Space. These little guys pack a lot of space into those strips but you will need more and these devices are utilized for short-term storage not long-term.
Hard drives are the best storage medium. If used and stored properly they will last for years. Just make sure the drive is of a new model. The reason is their internal software. Hard drives are smarter these days due to the error control and the fact that they can detect a flawed area on the platter and they can avoid it. Try that with a tape. They are also vacuumed sealed so they cannot get dirty. The only restriction is that you keep them in a cool location free from magnetic activity.
Saturday, March 24, 2012
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
The Best ESATA Hard Drives
Nowadays the more widely used data storage devices are those quick and robust ones such as the eSATA hard drives. The SCSI drives are still pretty common but the PATA has been demoted into being more obsolete. Such occurrences may due to the advantage of SATA as they are really fast because of the super speed data transfer capabilities. There is a swarm of reasons why the SATA has such incredible speed as well as a very reliable storage medium. In fact, the actual speed of SATA is able to reach up to 300MB per second, being more than sufficient to complement with the modern days' applications. This is way more superior compared to the obsolete hard drives such as the PATA.
Certainly, consumers are constantly coming up with greater demands and expect the technology to provide supreme capabilities such as highly realistic and complex video gaming experiences besides extremely high speeds and high definition videos. Although many claim that the SATA hard drives have the additional benefits of being fast and reliable, they are generally more than that. As there are more modern devices such as the Laptops and desktop computers, some computers come with the external SATA built in for users to utilize faster flash thumb drives and larger capacity.
Along with such flexibilities, the eSATA is also equipped with something that makes it distinctively different from the PATA and SCSI - the SATA connector and cable designs. The PATA uses the outdated style of flat cable designs and the cables of SCSI are cumbersome and difficult to cope, both the cables have connectors that may damage the pins. Their sizes may also block the computer's chassis airflow efficiency. Such problems have been comprehensively eradicated with the new cable design, being slim and having a L-shape style for easier and simpler connection. Besides, they are also cheaper and will not cause users to suffer length restrictions - you can have the cable up to three feet without degrading the signals.
Another beneficial advantage of the SATA hard drives is that they are known to be "hot swappable", meaning they can be removed and replaced onto the port without the need to switch the power off. This is certainly a incredibly vast advantage if you are using different data storage drives. Obviously, this cannot be done if you are using the boot driver. These hard drives now are the de facto standard for all computers. They are more than what computer users need and alongside with the insertion of backward compatibility into the standard, the hard drive will work perfectly well with any future upgrades.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Advantages of an External Hard Drive
The first advantage of an external hard drive is the storage function of valuable information and images apart from a particular computer. By storing the information off-site in an external hard drive the information will survive the theft of a Laptop or PC, a fire at home or at work or the destructive results of a virus or other form of cyber attack. A new computer can easily access the external hard drive and within minutes the backed up information downloaded and ready to use. Information may or may not be retrievable after a computer crash so it pays to have a little bit of data life insurance. The computer may die but the information is preserved intact.
A second advantage to having one of these is that a tremendous amount of information can be stored in addition to that normally filed on a primary use computer. Images, videos, music and games require a tremendous amount of space on an internal drive and can slow the operating speed of the computer. Data not currently needed can be stored on the external drive and removed from the computer entirely. If the data is stored exclusively on an external drive a secondary back-up should be used. These can have their own problems and the data be lost.
Security is another advantage of an external drive. It can be stored off-site and the sensitive information not retained on a network computer or one that is subject to being accessed by unauthorized people. Critically important data can be stored miles away to ensure its not being tampered with on site.
Portability is a valuable asset of external drives. Information can be passed along without interconnectivity or large files bogging down the computers on both ends of a transmission. Large databases can be stored on extremely small USB flash drives that fit in a shirt pocket or a purse. These small devices are quickly plugged into a Laptop port and the information is available within seconds.
There are many reasons businesses and personal PC users rely on external hard drives.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
External Hard Drive Data Recovery - Not So Different
Internal hard drives. External hard drives. Floppies. CDs. DVDs. They are all great for storing data--until they fail. Nothing is certain in life, and there is no certainty that the means by which you have been storing your important data will not become damaged and require data recovery. You may even be the cause of your lost data, by doing some accidental deleting.
If the data which you are trying to retrieve is stored on an external hard drive, however, the recovery process and can range from simple to highly complicated. But external hard drive data recovery, for the most part, is similar to that used for retrieving lost files no matter where they were originally stored.
Doing Your Own External Hard Drive Data Recovery
If your external hard drive is part of a company network, you will have to attach it to a monitoring system so you can track the progress of t the external hard drive data recovery. Any idle desktop computer or workstation will suffice; you just need to make sure someone is watch dogging the process and can intervene if any glitches occur in the retrieval effort. The last thing you want to have happen is for the external hard drive data recovery process to appear to have finished, and then find that it is still malfunctioning and requires a do-over.
Once the external hard drive data recovery process retrieval is finished, the recovered data will need to be tested for functionality. Begin by checking the operational system files, because without them you will not get far. If they check out, you can go ahead and test the informational files like your business invoices, tax records, spread sheets and databases.
If your general business files are in order, you can branch out and see if the external hard drive data recovery has restored the files with which your company's different departments work. If all those files are up and running, you can rest assured that the external hard drive recovery went as planned, and you can remove the hard drive from the monitoring station and put it back where it normally belongs.
You can accomplish this by checking various operational and data files that are saved on the external drive. Start out with the operations system first, then move on to some of the larger and more important files, such as your invoicing system. From there you can get into other files that are used fairly often by various persons and departments in your company. Once you are assured that the data is intact, accessible, and working properly, you will know that the recovery was successful and you can return the external drive to its usual station.
When Your Effort Fails
If, however, your efforts at an in-house external had drive data recovery fail, the next step is to take or ship the hard drive to a data recovery specialist. The specialist will examine and evaluate the damage your external hard dive and let you know how much it will cost to perform an external hard drive data recovery, and what you can realistically expect to recover. If your company's management approves the expense, the specialist will proceed with the recovery attempt and return as much of your data as possible.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Registry and Hard Drive Cleaner Rip Off? Here Are the Facts
For some reason, there seems to be a cottage industry developing which is all about making registry cleaners seem useless or even worse, a waist of money. Why there are people out there telling stories about the evils of cleaning computer registries, I just don't know.
In this article, I will make a case in favor of registry cleaners and tell why I truly believe every PC owner should be using one of these programs on a regular basis and how I have come to this conclusion. I will also point out how letting corruption build up in the registry could contribute to the demise of a computer.
You will read no technical jargon here. This is all about my business which is keeping home computers running the way they did when they were first taken out of the box. In other words, I am a computer technician and so, I will be talking from that perspective.
Customer Satisfaction
An engineer can sit in a lab and pour over theoretical computer behavior if he or she would like. However, there is one statistic an engineer will never discover. That is the thousands, yes thousands of satisfied customers who have thanked me for either properly cleaning their computers' registries or in many cases, explaining to them the proper way to use a good commercial registry cleaner.
There is absolutely no doubt about it! Making sure your computer's registry is free of corruption is a necessary part of its general maintenance, and unless you're a certified Microsoft technician, only a registry cleaner is able to handle that function. Maybe a few years ago a computer operator could get away without scanning and repairing a registry, but not today.
Windows XP and Vista develop registry corruption routinely. This corruption is not the result of misuse. It occurs from normal use and if it is not taken care of it will slow down your computer, sometimes to a crawl! There are many other maladies a corrupt registry will cause. Amongst these maladies are computer errors and crashes.
No Hypotheses, But a Way of Life
My livelihood is repairing computers. I've seen computers that were running so slowly they were taking 10 minutes to load a simple Web page and these computers were spyware and virus free. The owner did nothing wrong that would cause the PC to behave this way. Still, after using a good registry cleaner the computer ran great. I can't tell you how many times I've seen this has happen!
Don't pay any attention to those who are demeaning the use of registry cleaners. They obviously haven't run into the same situations I have. Probably, they have never repaired a home computer in their lives!
Finally, registry scans are free. So, if you find you don't have registry corruption, you don't have to deal with a registry cleaner. However, if you do have registry corruption and you have a computer that is not functioning well. This corruption is probably the problem! At this point you really need to get that registry cleaned. I don't care what anybody else says!
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
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Sunday, February 19, 2012
Hard Drive Failure And Deleted Files - How To Recover That Information
Today I switched on my computer and after a short while I need to access some information that I had backed up on my external hard drive.
I had bought and started to use the external hard drive after I had suffered a computer failure some 12 months or so ago and because it had caused me so many problems decided that at long last I ought to take the advice of everyone online and backup my vital files and information on a regular basis.
The external hard drive I purchased was the PixaOne silver flycase and at the time was sufficiently large enough with a 160 gig capacity and at that time was well priced for my needs.
I had used the backup external hard drive on a regular basis and never suffered any problems and had used it today without any problems until after about one hour or so.
On trying to access the external hard drive through the normal channels I clicked on the access icon and was presented with a box saying that the hard drive was not formatted and could not be accessed with formatting it and as a consequence any information or files already on it would be lost.
As you can imagine I was quite distraught thinking of all the vital information that I would lose, after all this was my backup and that was the whole idea of buying it in the first place.
After making searches on the internet I found many similar problems had happened to other users, not only of my particular hard drive but a vast array of other external hard drives and main computer hard drives alike.
As a consequence of this information it would appear that with any vital information it is worthwhile making backup copies not once but several times and on different hard drives and even cd's.
As far as my own lost information was concerned I searched the internet for any software that was capable of recovery and after trying several demo versions decided that the best as far as I was concerned was the Recovermyfiles software.
The Recovermyfiles software was extremely easy to set up and amazingly was able to scan my hard drive and give me the opportunity to recover all my files and folders that I though were lost for ever.
The cost of the software compared to employing professionals to recover my data was extremely competitive and well worth trying in the first instance should you experience any lost data problems.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
6 Tell-Tales Signs That You Need To Reformat Your Hard Drive
So you've noticed that your trusty computer has stopped being so trusty, and is now more concerned with crashing and not cooperating than performing your requested tasks. What can you do about it? You want your computer to run like it was brand new, but you don't want to have to go through the process of buying a new one, and you're not sure about when you should use that R word... Reno? Nope. Remove? Nope. Reformat? That's the word.
Here's 6 tell-tale signs that you need to reformat your hard drive.
Startup takes longer than a couple of minutes- Startup shouldn't take longer than 2-3 minutes even on a slightly older machine, so when it starts getting into the 5-10 minute range you may want to look into reformatting as an option to get your PC back in shape, or you can try doing some startup tweaks to get a faster startup if you don't want to reformat just yet. If you PC seems to hang (pause) at the Windows loading screen or any point during startup a good reformat should fix the hang, because it usually sorts out startup problems like hardware configurations and the sort.
Shutdown takes longer than a few minutes- Again, your shutdown shouldn't take more than 5 minutes, and that's being generous. Maybe your computer has to use the extra time to shutdown all the virus processes on your PC, but I dunno.
You've discovered viruses and spyware that you can't get rid of- Maybe your anti-virus program is crappy, or you've been infected by super viruses that just won't go away. A good reformat will get rid of all your bugs, so don't hesitate to use that as an option when you're knee-deep in viruses.
Half the time your programs and files end up not responding- When you can't hardly operate any programs without them not responding, or your computer particularly seems unstable something in your Windows installation probably got corrupted. It can easily get corrupted just over time with use and driver updates, they don't make OSes to last forever in a perfect state.
Windows errors on startup and shutdown- If you constantly receive Windows errors on your startup and shutdowns, then it may be a good idea to reformat. When everything is running smoothly you shouldn't get errors, errors only typically show up when something has gone wrong. Especially if you get the infamous Blue Screen Of Death, if that shows up, chances are it's only going to get worse, so better reformat now while you still have time.
Your computer begins playing Mozart- Back in the day when your computer dies it'd start playing classical music, if your computer does this, you can probably try reformatting, but I don't think it'll work. You can think of it as your computer's funeral music.
Remember to back up all of your important information before you reformat, make sure you don't forget those important pictures of your girl either that you'd regret losing. ;)