Be Smart: Partition Your Drive by John H Lee
Being in the computer field for some years, I've seen many people being afraid to save data on their computers. People are so paranoid, but don't really know what to do unless they're willing to spend a little time to learn about the box with a cup holder built into it (CD ROM tray)=0). ... Another good practice is to buy an external hard drive, Zip, or a tape drive depending on how large your data is, to have extra backup just in case, which is rare but does happen, the partition gets corrupted and the Logical drive is no longer there.

Do Not Sweat Over Boot-Up Failures by Bob Cheeseman
Boot-up failure? Yup, been there! This is sometimes a problem with PCs, and when it fails to boot, you will want to cry. But there are times when it does fail to boot, and having some knowledge on how to solve this problem helps. The first step is to look at the most obvious thing - the cords. ... The importance of the boot disk is that the PC, for it to boot, uses the good critical files needed to start your PC that are in the floppy disk once you place it in. ... You have to right click on them to send them to the floppy disk.

Thumb Drives - Great New Technology! by Mike Burstein
The ability to easily move data from PC to PC with minimal inconvenience is just another benefit computers have brought to the current business world. Over the past few years, the different options to save and move data have multiplied dramatically. Usually the floppy disk (with it's 1.2 MB... The latest innovation, the USB Removable Flash Memory (Thumb Drive, Key Drive, Flash Drive, USB Drive, Micro Drive) brings a whole new meaning to easy transport of data. ... These USB compliant devices are small enough to fit on a key ring or carry in your shirt pocket.

How to Back-Up Your Computer Files by Natalie Aranda
Its amusing how pc users the world over are mortified of losing data by a virus attack but don't care much about backing up files. Though the intention is the same – to save data, people are concerned more about virus attacks rather than having back up program. ... So if data stored in a drive is lost, Windows back up fetches it back from another drive where its stored as back up. ... Therefore, the best long term back up option is to store data in zip drive or tape drive. ... The next methods are to save your data in to a floppy or a CD.

Choosing The Best Portable Storage Option For Your PC by Rich Fuller
In ancient times, a few megabytes were considered to be a considerable amount of storage. Transferring data between computers meant carrying around big, goofy floppy disks that weren’t very reliable compared to today’s storage standards. Next the 1.44 megabyte diskettes became the norm for... A major plus with USB hard drives is that they provide a significant capacity advantage over thumb drives, and for less money; this is a compelling reason to opt for a USB hard drive if your storage capacity needs are massive.

Mounting the Hard Drive(s) - Step 12 in Building Your Own PC by Chuck Lunsford
Before we get started consider where in the case you want the hard drive. Keep in mind that hard drives generate heat simply by operating normally. Something spinning at 7200 RPM is going to get warm. It is better to place them away from other hardware components as much as the physical... All cases have a space or two for a hard drive that is below the floppy drive bay and has no access from the front of the case. ... With that in mind let us proceed: Slide the hard drive into an available drive rail of the case.

6 Simple Steps To Add an Hard Drive To Your PC by Ford Fairline
The most popular and probably the easiest upgrade project for PC enthusiasts is still installation of a new hard drive. It's just a matter of time before terabyte-eating applications demands an upgrade to a bigger and faster hard drive. And don't forget video, audio and graphic files. ... All major drive makers pack software with their upgrade kits that prepares the drive for partitioning and formatting and can also copy what's on your current drive to the new one, helping to make the upgrade a breeze.

5 Things You Can Do With Flash Memory by Lynn Chan
Got flash memory cards? They aren’t only for your digital camera. Probably the coolest yet overlooked ways to use your flash memory card is as floppy drive replacement. Think about it, a flash memory card is really a form of storage disk. Most notebook computers today don’t come with a floppy... It’s no different than a regular floppy or hard drive. ... It will show up on your computer as a new drive. ... Flash memory cards are smaller and a tiny catalog of cards can offer you much more memory than a flash drive.

5 Reasons For Owning A USB Flash Drive by Niall Roche
There have been a number of wonderful inventions during the 20th and 21st century. Some of these creations have been both massive and minute. Very few of mankinds modern creations have revolutionized working life so much as the USB flash drive though. ... Reliable Once the data is stored on a USB flash drive you can rest assured that it's going to stay there and be there when you next need it. ... Tough For years people fiddled with boxes of floppy disks and CDs/DVDs. ... Portable USB flash drives are about the single most portable data backup device possible.

3.5" FDD (Floppy Disk Drive) is Dead! Long live the USB Drive! by Akhilesh Singh
Do you remember the last time you used the FDD drive of your computer, and for what? Chance is if you have used it then it would be for some emergency booting of the computer, or for recovery of your broken OS. Meaning you would have not used it for data transfer using this medium. ... Example includes: - USB Hard Disk Drives - Zip Drive with USB interface - digital camera acting as an USB drive for accessing the photographs directly on any computer - PDAs like Palm that already connect to the computer using USB acts as a USB drive for accessing the data stored in its memory and SD/MMC...