Category Archives: Hard Drives

External Hard Disk Problem – Tips

If you have an external hard disk problem what are your options? What do you stand to lose? If like myself you use your external hard disk for storing files such as pictures, moves, work files etc.. An external hard … Continue reading

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Folder auto changing to application

Hi, i have a problem on all my folders in my thumb drive auto changing from folder type to application type even a newly recreated folder will auto change its attruibute to hidden and create a .exe file of itself … Continue reading

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Hard Disk Failure

Hi my computer hard drive recently wiped for no reason its a 500GB hard disk in a HP dv3 there is no evedence on the hard disk of any info ever being there. It is as if its a brand … Continue reading

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Hitachi Hard Drives

I need a new hard drive after my Seagate failed after 13 months (just out of warranty) I was to try another make, soneone recommend Hitachi hard drives, but how good/reliable are they?

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Installing a solid state SATA drive, thinking about it?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of a solid state SATA drive over a standard hard drive? Is it worth getting an external solid state drive? Advantages of a SSD vs. standard hard drive. The first advantage and perhaps the … Continue reading

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What to look for in a portable external hard drive

What do you look for in a portable external hard drive? The cost of hard drive space has been coming down over the last few years, with the introduction of technologies such as SATA it makes much more sense to … Continue reading

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Sharing Files Using a Network Hard Drive

Network hard drive file sharing is the latest and perhaps the best way to share and backup files between two or more pc’s. Thinking of buying an external USB or Firewire hard drive? Wait just hang on a minute.. Why … Continue reading

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Mini SSD Drives

I guess it makes perfect sense for manufacturers to bring out their own mini SSD drives, after all at one time of another they are always trying to make things that much smaller. In this case it’s no bad thing … Continue reading

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Lost Hard Drive Space

Question What happened to my hard drive, over the past day I have lost hard drive space – it’s gone from 70gb to 1.5gb, do I have corrupt hard drive space ?       Answer Virus Check this first … Continue reading

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Installing XP on SATA Hard Drives

Installing XP on SATA hard drives can be a big issue After all its Windows, you would simply expect to power on the computer pop in the Windows XP CD start the installation and it should be smooth sailing to … Continue reading

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Installing Another Hard Drive Hard Drive Replacement

If your installing another hard drive, what type of hard drive do you need? You will probably want a larger capacity drive for starters, but other than this you need to ensure its compatible with your computer. Before buying a … Continue reading

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Install hard Drive Guide, what to look for, how to configure

Installing a hard disk drive. There are a number of different hard disk types on the market we have SCSI “small computer system interface” , SATA “serial ATA” But the the one we are installing here is the IDE type … Continue reading

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Learn about Hard Drives from Hard Drive Scan Disk to Purchasing and Installing

Computer-adviser hard drive scan disk article Checkout our hard drive pages where we cover everything from which drive, to installing, to preventative maintenance and the easy way to erase hard drive . Today there can be so much to hard … Continue reading

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Preventing Hard Drive Failure

Hard drive failure is a physical thing, the hard drive encounters a physical problem and will need to be replaced, suffering this type of hardware failure means data loss. Unless you want to pay for a specialist data recovery company … Continue reading

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Hard Drive Boot Problem – Causes and Fixes

A hard drive boot problem normally results in the hard drive not booting , the types of issue can be broken down into 3 types. Settings – This is perhaps the easiest to fix, it usually means the hard drive … Continue reading

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Free up Disk Space , Recovery Wizard

Free up disk space on your computer If your computer has low disk space this can be the cause of other problems such as a slowness, system lockups and crashes, plus of course the inability to save files to your … Continue reading

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External Hard Drive Buyers Guide Which External Hard Drive

External hard drive buyers guide – It’s never been a better time to get an external hard drive, hard drive prices have fallen and there is now a wide selection to choose from. What makes a good external hard drive? … Continue reading

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Erase Your Hard Drive

Do you want to erase your hard drive , or simply partition / repartition. Many people get confused about partitioning a hard drive or erasing. If you want to make sure that it’s much harder for anyone to recover any … Continue reading

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Disk Partition Management

An extra disk partition can make a computer look as though it has more than one hard drive, as in effect  a hard drive can be broken down in many partitions each with a unique drive letter for example. If … Continue reading

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Learn how to Convert FAT32 NTFS To Increase your computers Security

Convert FAT32 NTFS utility The three different types of file systems we shall cover are FAT32 (file allocation table 32), FAT16 (file allocation table 16) & NTFS (new technology file system) Only Windows XP, 2000 and NT support the NTFS … Continue reading

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