http://www.hard-drive-help.com/hard-drive-help-blog.html Information on maintaining your hard drive and getting it fixed when it starts giving you problems. en-us hard drive help Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:45:46 GMT Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:45:46 GMT hard-drive-help.com http://www.hard-drive-help.com/ps3-hard-drive.html 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. Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:45:46 GMT http://www.hard-drive-help.com/boot-usb-external-hard-drive.html 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. Sat, 24 May 2008 17:56:35 GMT http://www.hard-drive-help.com/hard-drive-temperature.html 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. Sat, 24 May 2008 15:24:22 GMT http://www.hard-drive-help.com/firewire-harddrive.html 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. Fri, 16 May 2008 15:49:21 GMT http://www.hard-drive-help.com/xbox-360-hard-drive.html The Xbox 360 hard drive is an indispensable part of a high performance gaming system. Don't buy an Xbox without a hard drive. Mon, 12 May 2008 12:01:06 GMT http://www.hard-drive-help.com/terabyte-hard-drive.html 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. Fri, 09 May 2008 18:36:35 GMT http://www.hard-drive-help.com/unformat.html If you accidentally formatted your hard drive its possible to still unformat and recover your data. Mon, 05 May 2008 23:54:57 GMT http://www.hard-drive-help.com/undelete.html Looking to undelete an accidentally erased file? I can't guarantee a recovery but I can give you some advice to help prevent this problem in the future. My best advice is to sign up for a free online backup service that you can use to protect your important files. I also provide a link to the best free file recovery program. Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:17:15 GMT http://www.hard-drive-help.com/clean-hard-drive.html 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. Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:13:43 GMT http://www.hard-drive-help.com/chkdsk.html 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. Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:18:05 GMT http://www.hard-drive-help.com/samsung-hard-drives.html Samsung hard drives are starting to be serious competition to Seagate and Western Digital. Consider their late entry into the terabyte market. The Samsung SpinPoint F1 terabyte drive easily bested these competitors. Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:46:57 GMT http://www.hard-drive-help.com/cheap-hard-drives.html Two big reasons to partition a hard drive are to separate your data from the operating system, and to create a dual boot system. Don't partition your hard dive just because you think it will make your system more efficient, because Windows will always run better on a bigger disk. Over the past year the prices of hard drives have fallen and the sizes have increased. It almost doesn't make sense to go through the trouble of partitioning a drive when you can just get a cheaper and larger drive to either replace or supplement your growing storage needs. Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:28:34 GMT http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FLaCie-301103U-Porsche-External-Drive%2Fdp%2FB000H6CBA4%2F&tag=hardrihel-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325 I was just browsing the hard drives at Amizon.com and couldn't resist telling my readers about this great deal I saw. If you're looking for an external hard drive, consider this 500gb LaCie USB drive. For $114.95, you get a 500gb hard drive in an external case with a power supply. The external power supply is considered a disadvantage if you want a portable external drive, but it can't be beat if you're only going to be connecting it to your desktop. So, take a look, they have other deals if the LaCie drive doesn't appeal to you. I'm going back to browsing on Amazon.com. Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:42:22 GMT http://www.hard-drive-help.com/seagate-hard-drive.html If you have a Seagate or Maxtor hard dive, you can download the free MaxBlast 5.0 disk imaging utility. The utility checks for any Seagate or Maxtor hard dive and it will even work if one of those drives is only connected via USB. This utility contains some powerful features. One is the ability to create disk images that can later be used to restore individual files without having to write to entire image to a new disk. The images can also be mounted as a virtual disk. This is really good for a free program. Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:43:00 GMT http://www.hard-drive-help.com/hard-drive-humor.html A little bit of hard drive humor. This is a brief video of someone having fun with old hard drives. But on a serious note, make sure you don't leave any personal data on drives you're getting rid of. Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:18:44 GMT http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ If you experience a situation where your computer is no longer bootable. It helps greatly to have the ability to boot from another device. The simplest alternative device is your CD ROM. If you don't already have a bootable repair CD, go over to Ultimate Boot CD and download and burn their image to a CD. Then, become familiar with the available tools. Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:05:51 GMT