Hard Drive Help

Basic information about hard drives to help you keep your data safe...

How A Battery Backup Can Save Your Hard Drive Data

A battery backup can protect your hard drive data from a power surge or a power outage. A surge protector will only give you partial protection against power fluctuations. This inexpensive piece of hardware can be a first line of defense in protecting your data.

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Computer Backup System Principles and Tips

A rigorous computer backup system must involve these seven principles. If any one of these principles is missing then your backup methodology has a fatal flaw.

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SATA/IDE to USB Converter

This simple USB Converter can handle both your older IDE hard drives and your newer SATA disks. The Coolmax CD 350 COMBO is a temporary external connector that allows you to quickly and easily connect hard drives and CD/DVD drives. While it may be especially useful for computer service technicians, it is also an excellent choice if you just want to upgrade an old computer and you need to copy data off of an old drive.

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Harddrive Data Recovery Experts

A harddrive data recovery is needed when you suspect physical damage to your hard drive. This is a review of a few of the best hard drive repair companies. They all have clean rooms, can fix a broken drive and recover your data.

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Hard Drive Backup Freeware

These are my hard drive backup freeware recommendations. All of them have great features and you are bound to find one that suits your needs.

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The PS3 Hard Drive is Easy to Upgrade

The PS3 hard drive can easily be upgraded with a larger hard drive. If you're handy with a screwdriver, you'll make easy work of this upgrade. Of all the game consoles, Sony makes it the cheapest and easiest to add lots of extra hard drive storage.

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Booting From a USB External Hard Drive

Are you looking to boot from a USB external hard drive? If so, here are three distinct ways of creating a bootable USB drive. Even if you don't have a need for a bootable hard drive right now, having such a drive available can be quite valuable when your regular hard dive decides not to boot anymore.

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Hard Drive Temperature

A software hard drive temperature monitor can help you protect your data. Of all the key components in your computer, the hard drive requires the lowest operating temperature. Because of this, it's important to know if your hard drives are running too hot. If your disk is too hot, you have a couple of good ways to cool it down.

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Firewire Harddrive

The Firewire harddrive is an excellent choice for a portable interface. It enables you to share drives between the PC and the Mac. Being much cheaper than SCSI, and yet enabling you to daisy-chain devices is a great benefit.

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Xbox 360 Hard Drive

The Xbox 360 hard drive is an indispensable part of a high performance gaming system. Don't buy an Xbox without a hard drive.

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Terabyte Hard Drive

Getting a terabyte hard drive is an easy way to consolidate your various smaller drives. If you're running out of hard drive space, you'll find it worthwhile to look at the roomy terabyte hard drive.

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Unformat After an Accidental Hard Drive Format

If you accidentally formatted your hard drive it’s possible to still unformat and recover your data.

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How to Undelete Lost Files

Looking to undelete an accidentally erased file? No one can guarantee a successful file recovery but here are a couple of tips to help prevent this problem in the future. The first tip is to sign up for a free online backup service to protect your important files; the second tip is to install a file recovery program before you actually need it.

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A Clean Hard Drive Will Thwart the Identity Thief

With identity theft on the rise, you can't be too careful in making the effort to get a clean hard drive. Don't give away your old PC or hard drive without first scrubbing all the data on the drive. You've likely forgotten much of what you put on there over the years, so don't rely on your memory, clean it all.

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CHKDSK Utility

CHKDSK is a Microsoft supplied utility that comes with your windows system. This utility has been around since MS-DOS but it has been continually updated to work with the latest windows system. Use it on a regular basis to monitor the health of your hard disk drive.

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