Data Backup / Recovery (Computers & Networking)
Microsoft Windows XP Tips – Recover Your Hard Drive Using System Restore - Danny Davids
It’s late in the evening and you’re at home, using your computer to update a document you need for work the next day. You make your final changes, save the document, and submit it to print. You turn to the printer, only to find nothing there. You print the document again, and again get nothing.... Submitted 5 years 314 days ago.
How to Create Restore Disks for a Mac - Terry Mitchell
Macintosh users have been excited about the release of the newest Leopard OS X upgrades. The system requirements are a Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4 (867MHz or faster) processor, a minimum ram of 512mb, and at least 9 GB of disk space. With these specs, it means that older... Submitted 3 years 28 days ago.
DVD Repair, Scratched DVDs and Unfinalized DVDs recovery tips and tricks. - Lance Carr
Simple procedures to handle unsuccessfully finalized DVDs, damaged DVDs or DVDs that have not been burned correctly by a video camcorder or recorder and has some corrupt data. It is a good idea for you to first consider other possible causes of what appear to be DVD errors such as a dirty... Submitted 3 years 213 days ago.
- John FrenchWhen was the last time you backed up your computer data? How many files and folders do you have on your computer? A rough guess will do. Personally I have over 85GB of data, music, Photoshop files and emails that I desperately would not want to lose. Backing up your data files on Windows is a... Submitted 3 years 329 days ago.
Seven Rules of Efficient and Effective Data Backup - Gerald S. Wassum
Companies (and individuals) should back up their data for two main reasons. The first is for those times when a document has been deleted or damaged and you wish to recover the original document. The second is as part of a disaster recovery plan – protecting your valuable data from theft, fire... Submitted 4 years 353 days ago.
Technical Support on Using Windows XP's System Restore Function - Patrick Wilson
Recently, Microsoft has launched their Windows XP suite together with a function that should have been integrated already in its predecessors. Now, both Home and Professional versions boasts of the System Restore feature, a technical support tool proven to be useful in altering or reversing the... Submitted 5 years 284 days ago.
Best Buy's Geek Squad: Conquest of Branding Over Competence - Joel Hirschhorn
Face it, the brilliance of American business is not perfecting quality of products and services, it is in marketing, advertising, and branding. That is what the Geek Squad is all about. They have niffty language, make their agents wear uniforms and drive the cutest little cars covered with... Submitted 5 years 288 days ago.
Virtualization 101 – The Basics - Jennifer Hanson
Virtualization is a process that allows one piece of hardware to run a number of operating system images all at the same time. Prior to its inception, the standard for x86 servers was to only run one application to one server. This was fine until more and more servers were needed to meet... Submitted 5 years 324 days ago.
Reinstalling Windows XP Without Drive Format - smartnetadmin
Objective: To reinstall Windows XP in order to obtain a fresh install/registry, but without possibly deleting data stored on the drive by the customer. This document assumes that Windows XP is presently installed in the standard WINDOWS directory. Boot the computer from the Windows XP... Submitted 6 years 120 days ago.
How to Save Important Information in The Modern World? - MichaelK
Article opens discussion regarding reliability of modern electronic storage media. Some time ago my hard disk drive had been crashed. I tried to restore at least something from it using special services. But specialists were implacable: hard disk drive is dead without any possibility to... Submitted 6 years 249 days ago.
Data Recovery One of the first things that happens after a catastrophic hard drive or operating system failure is that you realize that you, like most people, have not made any backups of your data. Well, all hope is not lost, there are a few things that you can try in order to recover your... Submitted 6 years 314 days ago.
My Hard Drive Crashed - Why? - Stu Oden
Why does a hard drive crash? This happens when there's a problem with the hard disk and you can't access the stored data, even when everything else with the computer is fine. It can happen any time for no reason, or can be due to something external like your dog or girlfriend puking on it. ... Submitted 2 years 276 days ago.
How Cleaning Windows Registry Benefits You? -
- Kilion WalshThe master database, the essential component to direct the operating system, windows registry, has integral flaws with the design. The registry was developed to organize and keep track of those text based .ini files used in the older versions of windows operating system. When a database like... Submitted 3 years 174 days ago.
Data Loss and Hard Drive Failure: Understanding the Causes and Costs -
- David SmithAbstract Hard drive failure is an inescapable reality in the modern business world. Whether due to human error, software corruption or other causes most firms will face incidents of lost data through hard drive failure. In this paper we analyze the various causes of hard drive failure and... Submitted 4 years 6 days ago.
Copy/Clone Hardrive -
- Jermaine ReidHard Drive configurations 1) Old hardrive to new hardrive- primary master to secondary slave (connect both drives to the same IDE ribbon cable) Ensure jumpers are physically set right. Old hardrive jumpers are suppose to set to master and new hardrive is set jumpers set to slave. Refer to... Submitted 4 years 49 days ago.
Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability and What it Means to You - Claudio LoCicero
Confidentiality Confidentiality is ensuring that information is accessible only to those authorized to have access, regardless of where the information is stored or how it is accessed. Each employee within an organization has the responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of the... Submitted 4 years 203 days ago.
Backing Up (Part 2) - External Hard Drives - Larry Spinak
This is the backup method I recommend for most people in most situations: Back up to an external hard drive, using specialized backup software. That’s pretty straightforward. Let’s define almost every word in that sentence. A hard drive is like a stack of phonograph records, except the grooves... Submitted 5 years 191 days ago.
Repair USB Flash Drive - Bharat Bista
The experience of finding out that the digital camera you just bought can only take a very limited number of pictures, and that transferring these images to the computer takes just about forever, can wipe out the excitement that normally accompanies such a purchase. Most digital cameras and older... Submitted 5 years 245 days ago.
USB Memory Stick Recovery - Bharat Bista
Typically USB flash storage devices are small, lightweight, handy, low cost, rewriteable and removable; USB flash drives are NAND-type memory, a data storage device integrated with a USB interface. There are several advantages over other portable storage devices; predominantly on conservative... Submitted 5 years 245 days ago.
Brief Tutorial That Provides An Overview of Norton Ghost 10.0 - Georgiana
The easiest way to back-up and recover your computer Norton Ghost 10.0 is a very powerful back-up tool that backs up everything on your computer : applications, settings, operating system, music, private documents, photos including removable media such as :CDs, DVDs and USB drives. There are... Submitted 5 years 273 days ago.
How to Prepare a “Bug Out” Laptop Kit - TJ Smith
Can you imagine being away from your computer for an extended period of time? No internet, no email, no funny jokes, no games to play? Many people have found themselves in this position when the unexpected happens. In the event of a natural disaster, terrorist event or a bird flu pandemic, having... Submitted 6 years 85 days ago.
Maintenance Tips for Optimal PC Performance - DavidTan
Just like regular maintenance to keep the car in good shape, you need to maintain your computer in order to keep it operational. Be it a ibm fujitsu siemens computer, they will break down one day when you least expect. However, this is something that most people tend to neglect, resulting in... Submitted 6 years 277 days ago.
Regular usage of the hard disk drive results to bad sectors. Bad sectors are one of the most common culprits for a slow hard disk performance causing a lag or even an inability to write data (just like saving file). An error checking utility scans the hard drive for bad sectors. Dislocated files... Submitted 1 year 36 days ago.
Data Recovery, Data Redundancy, Raid Faq's -
- Bryan KellerWhat is RAID? RAID is the acronym for either ‘redundant array of inexpensive disks’ or ‘redundant array of independent disks’. When first conceived at UC Berkley the former was the actual term that was coined but the latter is more commonly used today intentionally to... Submitted 1 year 72 days ago.
The Importance of Data Backup - Including 3 Tips for Backing Up Your Important Files and Documents - Nick Fotache
All hard drives fail eventually. It’s not a matter of “if” but “when” A report from Google’s data centers in 2007 indicated that consumer-grade hard drives fail at a rate of 7% per year. That’s one out of fourteen hard drives every single year! Most... Submitted 1 year 92 days ago.
