A Quick History Of The Floppy Disk by Niall Roche
Even though there is a lot to be said about floppy drives, these forms of data storage are mostly mentioned in a historical capacity. While you can do a data backup to a floppy disk (assuming your computer even has a floppy drive) it is definitely not recommended. ... However, it was the smaller floppy disk drives that were commonly used in people's homes. ... Almost as soon as it was invented, the floppy disk made punch cards obsolete – they were just so portable, reliable, and easy to use. ... These typically came in sizes between 720KB and 2.8 MB – though the 1.44MB floppy disk was by...

Lifetime of a CD-ROM disk by Bob Rankin
How Long Will a CD or DVD Last? As with any backup medium (floppy disk, tape, CDROM, etc.) the lifetime of the data is an important consideration. Kodak has done extensive accelerated aging tests which indicate that their Infoguard CD-R should last 200 years. ... Here's how it works: First clean the disk with warm water and mild soap to remove any oils from fingerprints or other sources. ... Rub the disk gently with toothpaste (the pasty kind, not a gel) in a RADIAL (not circular) motion from the center of the disk to the outside edge.

I Lost It! Simple Guide To Recovering Corrupted Images And Files by John Deprice
WinUndelete http://www.deprice.com/winundelete.htm WinUndelete™ is an easy to use undelete software utility to recover deleted files from hard drives, floppy disks, zip drives, USB external flash drives, digital camera cards, and more. Its unique and exclusive SmartScan technology completes... Works on Smart Media, Compact Flash, Memory Sticks, hard drives, floppy disks, Zip disks, USB drives. ... You may be surprised what deleted documents are lurking on your hard disk without your knowledge.

Did You Ever Want to Completely Erase Everything on Your Computer? by Ken Savage
Did you ever want to erase everything on your computer? This is a program I found that does that for you quickly and easily. Active@ KillDisk is a hard drive eraser and is powerful and compact DOS software that allows you to destroy all data on hard and floppy drives completely, excluding any... Or use 1 step Bootable Floppy Creation * Download and run the Bootable Floppy Disk Creator for Active@ KillDisk (click the link). ... * Prepare and insert bootable floppy disk. ... Now you are ready to boot from the floppy/CD and use the software for disk erasing.

DVD RAM by Ken Marlborough
DVD is a format to store optical data. It is used as a storage medium for movies with very high video and sound quality. The DVD RAM or the DVD Read-And-Write Memory is a disk specification. The DVD Forum came up with it in 1996 and since 1998, DVD RAM has been used in computers, camcorders and... It has concentric tracks and is accessed like a usual floppy disk or hard drive. ... DVD RAM 1.0 is a single-sided, one- layer disk with a capacity of 2.58 GB or a double-sided one-layer disk with a capacity of 5.16 GB.

FreeDOS by Stephen Bucaro
Before September 1995, Microsoft Windows was an MS-DOS program. DOS was an easy to use command line operating system that provided you with complete ability to control and troubleshoot your computer. Microsoft's goal was to eliminate DOS, possibly to prevent you from having complete control of... Insert the FreeDOS floppy disk in the floppy drive and start the computer. ... In the Start | Run dialog box, or at a command prompt type "diskcopy fdodin07.144 a:" to create a bootable FreeDOS floppy disk.

Data Backup for Beginners by Niall Roche
It's 10pm. Do you know where your data is? Data. Small bits of information clustered together to make Word files, documents,pictures, MP3s, HTML etc. We work on our computers every single day never sparing a thought for all those millions of chunks of data spread all over our hard disks. ... Just wear and tear on my hard disk. ... The cost of recovering from a major hardware failure such as a hard disk crash can be massively reduced by keeping a backup of your data. ... At the start of the month make a fresh copy of all your critical data on the Week 1 disk and continue this process on...

Computer Memory Guide - What You Need to Know About Purchasing Computer Memory by Donny Duncan
Computer memory, also known as RAM (random access memory) is the place in the computer where the operating system stores information about applications and data in current use so that they can be quickly reached by the computer's processor. RAM is much faster to read from and write to than the... RAM also works at various megahertz, limited by the megahertz that the Front Side Bus on your motherboard works (the Front Side Bus, or FSB, is the channel on the motherboard used to transfer information from the CPU to the RAM) so if you have RAM that works at 500 megahertz, and the FSB of your...

Flash Card: When Size Really Matters by Robert Thatcher
Few years back, we never really imagined how memory storage would evolve into flash cards we know today. It is ever harder to believe that the tiny rectangular piece of plastic could store thousands of pictures, hundreds of songs, and even movies. Remember few years ago when storing files could... With the amazing capacity to store as much as 1.44 MB of files, these floppy disks are really works of technology. ... Those we have thought the future of memory storage- the floppy disks? ... This is the reason why floppy disks are now the thing of the past.

Flash Your nVidia Video Card's BIOS by Jason Barrett
You will need the following: 1. 1.44MB FDD (floppy) 2. NVFLASH utility copy 3. Compatible BIOS file for your video card. (search the manufactures website for bios details) 4. Required Drivers. (check manufactures website) Alright now First Make an nVidia BIOS flash boot disk. ... Now that you have a DOS boot disk, copy the BIOS file you downloaded and the NVFLASH.exe file onto the disk. ... (if any problems folow instruction son the website) -If you need other ways of obtaining a boot disk just post in a related thread.