Errors, Failures and Data Recovery by Shahbaz Ahmad
More than 20 years have been passed in personal computing. But still some issues have not been resolved completely. One of them is data backup and recovery. There are many ways one can lose his or her critical files and data either accidentally deletion of file or media corruption. ... Some of them are: • User Errors • Software error • Hard drive electronic failures • Hard drive arm failures • Hard drive platter failures What ever the failure case is, a question arises how we can prevent our data files from failure?

Building Your Own Computer by D. David Dugan
The world of computers is constantly changing. It is one of the only industries that is different from month to month. If you’re in the market for a new PC, there are continually new options available. To get the best bang for your buck in computer technology, you may want to consider building... These include the motherboard, processor, cooling fans, hard drive, memory, keyboard, mouse, video and sound cards. ... If you are going to use your computer to surf the Internet and play computer games you are going to need extra pieces.

Floppies-The Portables of the Past - YRU Still Using Floppies? by Jack Wilson
Floppy disks have been in use for decades and have served us well. They can hold 1.44 megabytes of information and are more or less infinitely re-writeable. (Till they inexplicably de-format themselves just when you need them most). New computers today are usually sold without floppy drives. ... Just about every computer in the modern world has at least two USB ports so the drive is almost universally usable. ... Mini-hard drive. ... You can buy a small digital card drive (The kind cameras use) for a few dollars.

Basic High Availability - An Introduction To RAID by Brian Stoffer
RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (other definitions may vary). In practice it is two or more hard disk drives configured for use by a single computer system. The configuration varies by intended use, but the most common use for RAID arrays is for high-availability installations. ... The net result is that if a single hard disk drive (heretofore referred to as a “hard drive” or “disk drive”) that is part of a properly configured RAID array were to fail, the general operations of that computer system would be unaffected.

How To Format A Hard Drive by Brian Maroevich
Here's how to format a hard drive (Legal Stuff: We are not responsible for any damages, lost data, or anything of the sort)... If you have a computer, you surely know what a hard drive is. If you don't have one, or simply don't know what a hard drive is, then this article will begin with a short... This message is to indicate that the files required to boot your computer from the hard drive have been copied from the floppy to the hard drive. ... The computer can now boot from the hard drive without a boot disk in the floppy drive.

Make Your Computer Happy - Defrag That Disk by Shannon Baker
Just like your car, a computer needs a little bit of maintenance every so often to keep it running smoothly. One task most often overlooked is defragmenting the hard drive. Just what is hard drive defragmenting, and why should you do it? What Is File Fragmentation? ... However, if you go back and add a few pages to that story you were writing, the computer doesn't see any space on the hard drive to store the new data. ... Think of your computer's hard disk drive as a large filing cabinet for your data.

Three Things You Can Do to Keep Your Computer Running at Maximum Performance by Larry Andrew
Although there are many things that can affect the performance of your computer, there are a few simply things you can do each month to help keep your computer running at maximum performance. This article will focus on two problems that impact the performance of your computer and will then... Problem #1: Computer Hard Disk Files Your computer is always writing information to your hard disk, no matter what you do. ... First, select the hard drive from your computer. ... However, the more scattered the information becomes on your hard drive, the more accesses your computer has to make to...

Computer Upgrades: The Most Important Question by Michael Quarles
Of all the concerns you may have about your computer, there is one that overrides all of them. Can it do the jobs you need it to do? If your main needs are a machine for balancing your checkbook, doing a little word processing, and surfing the web, then almost any computer of recent vintage will... If you need more hard drive space, you can get a bigger drive, or just add an extra one. ... Is there enough space on the hard drive? ... All those questions might have you ready to look for a new computer.

Put Your Office On A Flash Drive by John Retzer
Flash drives (a.k.a memory sticks, usb drives, usb keys and thumb drives) make it increasingly easy to take your data on the road. With gigabytes of storage available, you can take all of your spreadsheet, presentation and document files wherever you go. ... Running software from your flash drive, however, is not as simple as installing Office to the stick instead of to your hard drive. ... Flash drive portable applications need to be able to run entirely off the drive, without installing anything on the host computer.

Computers - How They Have Advanced by John Gibb
Even over the last decade, the advances in computer technology have been immense. Computers can do more today than ever before, faster and at a better value price. Unfortunately, this also means that shopping for a computer can be confusing, as it is hard to know what you actually need and what... It is much better to upgrade to a DVD re-writer drive than to upgrade your hard disk space. ... DVDs hold so much data that however big your hard drive is, it is unlikely to hold more than a cheap spindle of DVD-RW discs – and they’re re-writable, so you only need to buy them once.