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PRINT | FULL TEXT PAGES: 1 2 3 What To Do If Your Hard Drive Crashes by John Krane May 26, 2005 A guide telling readers what to do in the event of a computer crash. Hard Drive Blues No matter what you do, it’s going to happen. “Even the best hard drives crash,†says [...]

Buying a laptop? Want to upgrade your old one with a new hard drive? Besides hard drive’s space size for storing your applications, documents, music, movies and other data, you should also pay attention to its speed performance. If you want fast access to stored data on your laptop’s hard disk, you should purchase hard [...]

TW Tech Glossary – Misplaced your bible? Well here it is! This truly took a while to complete and should be used by all from beginners to advance techies. Look into it, you won’t be sorry. (Very Resourceful) What Makes Up a Hard Drive? – Unlike TW trend of articles, this article is on hardware [...]

Jumper Settings Jumpers are metal pins that have small black plastic sleeves that slide over the top of them, they are used to configure certain devices, including hard drives. For the location of the jumper selector see fig 1.5, the jumper settings should be displayed on the hard drive label or in the manufacturer’s book. [...]

A hard drive is a computer component that holds data. Every computer needs at least one hard drive to store its operating system, programs and user information. This drive is usually internal, however, as computer systems have evolved and different needs, threats, and circumstances have arisen, the additional external hard drive has become extremely popular. [...]

•E-mail this definition to a colleague• Hard Disk Interfaces and Configuration Describes the different major interface standards currently used by hard disks (and other devices). Provides sections about the IDE/ATA and SCSI interfaces. This page is from “The PC Guide.” Internal Hard Drive Parts What’s inside your internal hard drive? Find out here. PC Guide’s [...]

Defragmenting Your Disk: Fragmentation occurs when you add and remove files from your computer. When you delete a file, Windows marks the sectors as available, and uses them the next time you create a file. If a file gets larger and contiguous space isn’t available, Windows uses other available sectors to store the new part [...]

How To Increase Computer Speed & Performance by malikali86 – 7/24/05 1:41 AM In reply to: To Increase Performance by Nacromancer Many computer users are worried about their computer’s performance. After spending lot of bucks, still they cannot have that charm of using PC as they had expected. Here I am going to explain some [...]

With the advent of external hard drive enclosures and the ease of plug and play USB and Firewire connections, many people are asking themselves if they should buy an internal or external hard drive when it comes to adding more storage or work space. These considerations should help you decide: ACCESS SPEED – The best [...]

One of the most common problems that will slow down any computer is hard drive related issues. But the best thing is that you can quickly run a few tests and problems to solve these types of issues. Confused Hard Drive equals Slow Computer speed Your slow running computer might be quickly fixed by defragmenting [...]