Cloning your Hard Drive and Saving Every Bit of Data by Michael Cottier
They cloned a sheep once, and that sheep had every thing similar to its clone source, except of course it's memories. With your hard drive on the other hand, you can copy its memory, every last bit of it, and restore it on a completely different hard drive. ... The best way to clone your hard drive, and easiest, is to use a good hard drive imaging software. ... Then you would have to partition and format the new drive, and then and only then, you could start the immediate transfer of data from one hard drive to another.

How to Install a Hard Drive by Alfred Moloto
As more files are stored on your computer, your hard drive is likely to run out off space. Today Hard drives are much bigger and cheap. In this excises I will walk you through the steps you need to take when installing a new hard drive. 1.Remove the case cover, make sure you have an open IDE... 5.If you want to use the new hard drive as your primary hard drive then you will need software to use to clone like (Norton Ghost), it will make an identical drive with all the software and drivers with windows just like your old hard drive, the difference will the space.

A Free Microsoft Office? by John McILwraith
If your budget is limited and you need a full features Office suite, we know of one that has got everything you might conceivably need. The deeper question, is whether anyone will ever need all of these features. It's nice to know that a FREE Office Suite of applications has probably more to it... Since The free Microsoft Office clone can read, print, write, edit and save in native Microsoft office formats there is no need to keep illegally copied office suites on computers any longer. ... When the big corporate giants start leaving Microsoft Office for an Open Source, Microsoft Office...

Data Recovery Methods by Michael Russell
Sometimes, due to unforeseen occurrences, it may become necessary to recover information from your hard drive. For instance, you computer may encounter problems and you need to recover documents. In many cases such data retrieval is quite possible. So, how exactly does data recovery work? ... Then, if you should decide to give the data recovery provider the go ahead, they will clone the system and begin attempting to retrieve the data that is on your hard drive. ... The drive will have to be wrapped in material that will not produce static and you should avoid the use of Styrofoam peanuts...

Data Recovery 101 by Natalie Aranda
Almost all computer users have experienced this at least once – the need to get back a deleted /lost data file. This could happen as a result of a software failure, hardware failure, human error, power related problems, damage caused by flood / water, vandalism, virus damage, damage by fire /... Hard drive data recovery is possible from small hard drives of 2 GBs to big hard drives of 120 GBs. ... Hard drive data recovery requires the presence of technicians if there is a hard drive crash. ... RAID is a collection of hard disks that act as a single better hard disk than the individual ones.

Name Brand Computer Systems -vs- Clone Computers by Scott Bulkley
It seems to be a popular topic online these days that when buying a computer as to whether you should go with name brand computer (i.e. Dell) or a clone system (i.e build it yourself). I have been building and repairing PC's for a good 10 years now or so, and have built over 4000 systems... CLONE SYSTEMS - Pro's - -You can build a system from scratch or have a PC savvy friend do it and know EXACTLY what is in the box and hand choose each and every component personally. ... Hard drives are starting to have 3-5 year warranties (Maxtor and Western Digital) and Memory has always been...

Military Application Of Data Recovery by Valerie Const
According to Data Recovery Labs it is reported the Chinese are currently testing the manufacturing of new hard disk drives by pioneering new coating materials for the magnetic media/platters, involving the development of mixing plastic based materials with metalic alloy even further, in contrast... The Chinese were reported to have scanned, cloned and analyzed every inch of the aircraft component, and managed to have found the damaged hard disk drive and carried out data recovery on the disk containing highly classified reconnaissance data, including data related to the location from which...

PC Tools You'd Never Think You Need by John Deprice
Do you use Windows standard uninstall feature? How do you migrate data from your old PC to the new one? Get some tips on amazing software you never knew existed and find out why the pros have been using them for years. Ashampoo UnInstaller Suite The question is, why should this be necessary at... Changed registry entries are restored to the values they had before you installed the program More Information: http://www.deprice.com/ashampoounInstallersuite.htm Acronis MigrateEasy 7.0 So finally you got your hard disk drive the way you like it.

Word Processing Office Suite by John McILwraith
You need to have a word processor period. Each and every computer user needs one. It is like sugar in the pantry, you just have to have it on hand. At least I have never in my over Ten years in the I.T. field met some one that did not need a word processor at one time or another. ... Otherwise you will have a bunch of useless code that you either un install from your PC or allow it to take up valuable disk space on your hard drive. ... There is a Free Microsoft Office Clone. ... Some would say that this “ Free Microsoft Office ” Clone already is based on it's over 2 million installed user...

Basics of RAID by Jason Kohrs
A couple of the recent Tech Tips from www.geeks.com have made mention of RAID, but the level of detail required in those tips didn’t shed much light on what RAID actually is. The number of e-mail responses and comments in the Readers Digress section was convincing enough that an introduction to... It allows a failed hard drive to be removed from a live system by simply unlocking the bay and sliding the drive cage out of the case. ... Most arrays will only be able to use the capacity of the smallest drive, so if a 250GB Hitachi drive is added to a RAID configuration with an 80GB Hitachi...