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  • How to Configure a Raid Card

    RAID, short for "Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks," is a way of increasing the speed and/or reliability of the hard drives installed in a computer by having at least two drives operating...

  • How to Put Music on a Memory Stick

    A Memory Stick is a type of storage device that allows you to save virtually any type of file, so long as the Memory Stick is large enough to hold it. The units range in storage size and can be...

  • How to Use ReadyBoost in Vista or Windows 7 to Speed Up Your Computer

    Memory (RAM) upgrade is probably the most common solution to slow responsive computer. But sometimes finding and installing the right memory can be difficult especially if you are not...

  • How to Assign a Drive Letter to a USB Device

    Following this easy howto will teach you how to assign a drive letter to a USB drive in Windows XP so that "My Computer" will recognize it easily.

  • How to Remove BlackBerry Micro SD: BB Bootcamp

    After purchasing my BlackBerry Curve 8330 in "Inferno", I was so proud of myself I tried to call my daughter to tell her. TRIED. About four hours later, I was finally able to answer an...

  • Types of Electronic Filing Systems

    The computer term "electronic filing system" can refer to several different things in regards to hard drives and file storage methods. Here are the various usages of the term, and examples of each...

  • How to Delete Data From a Memory Stick

    A memory stick is a type of storage device. It holds different types of data, such as documents, pictures and music files, and can be shared between computers. Memory Stick also refers to a brand...

  • How to Unwrite & Protect a Flash Drive

    USB flash drives may be protected to prevent writing to the drive. To prevent unauthorized files such as viruses and Trojans from saving or replicating to the drive, write-protection may be...

  • How to Install SATA to a Parallel ATA Device Bridge Adapter

    Since its inception the SATA, or Serial ATA, specification has rapidly gained favor, now virtually replacing the Parallel ATA (IDE) drive specification. Due to this widespread acceptance, many...

  • How to Archive Data for a Thousand Years

    The CDs and DVDs you record on your home computer have an average life span of just two to five years. After that short time, the data will start to deteriorate. You are going to want your...

  • How Does a USB Pen Drive Work?

    The key element of a USB pen drive is its flash memory. Flash memory is a type of Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM). It is memory that stores data on a chip, rather...

  • How to Move Computer Pictures to BlackBerry 2: BB Bootcamp

    If this is your first BlackBerry, even the most basic tasks can seem complicated. It took me hours to make my first outgoing call from my BlackBerry so you can imagine my battle with the email set...

  • How to Copy a Video CD

    CDs are a useful medium for storing data. You can store music, documents, video and other such files on a compact disc, making it easy to back up your data in a couple of simple steps. Copying...

  • How to Fix a Memory Stick

    Sony Memory Sticks are removable flash media used for storing data from phones, cameras, and even the PSP game system. While flash memory cards are convenient, they have a tendency to become...

  • How to Reduce Technology Costs

    Technology is one of the most beneficial things that can happen to a business. It can help you to optimize your business and can also reduce the cost as well. But the technology itself costs a...

  • How to Manage Data

    Gigabytes have become cheap, and we are getting accustomed to storing any file we want, no matter how important – or unimportant – it is to our lives. There’s always more storage room, right? ...

  • How to Find an Online Backup Service

    Files get corrupted, viruses hit, and disks get lost or damaged. If it hasn’t happened to you yet, it will. Murphy’s Law says so. You need to have an easy way of making sure it doesn’t cost you...

  • How to Free Up Space on a D Disk Drive

    When you use a Windows computer, it will have a "C" drive -- usually the main drive. Chances there will be a second hard drive, or the main drive will be partitioned. In either case, your system...

  • How to Tell When Your HP HDD Has Failed

    Hewlett Packard, often referred to by its initials, HP, is a leader in computer products and has a long history in the computer business. Every hard drive, however, will eventually fail; it's just...

  • How to Recover a Seagate Hard Drive

    A failed computer hard drive can cause the loss of hours of hard work, irreplaceable family pictures or hundreds of dollars worth of purchased music. Although computer hardware is becoming more...

  • Definition of Thumb Drives

    Thumb drives, also known as flash drives or jump drives, are small, portable USB memory storage devices. They are small enough to fit in a pocket and have begun to replace floppy disks and compact...

  • How to Clean a Memory Stick

    There are several different forms of memory sticks available on the market. Some range from a USB thumb drive, while others are inserted into digital equipment, such as a camera. Over time, the...

  • How Laptop Hard Drives Work

    Laptop hard drives use electromagnetic energy and components engineered to micro-fine exactness to store gigabytes of data and recall it with near instantaneous speed. While computer science has...

  • Internal Hard Drive Problems

    Internal computer hard drives, regardless of manufacturer, are among the most stable and long-lived hardware devices. They are not perfect, however, and problems can and do arise. Even if an...

  • Notebook Hard Drive Problems

    Notebook hard drives face all the potential problems of desktop internal hard drives. In addition to this, due to their small design and thermal considerations they face a unique set of problems....

  • Types of Mobile Storage Media

    Mobile storage is used in MP3 players, cell phones, laptops and many other consumer devices. It enables small devices to hold large amounts of data, and it is the focal point of many new products.

  • How to Find Out Why My Computer Won’t Turn On

    Computer failures can cause a huge inconvenience for anyone relying on their PC for day to day tasks. In this article I will give you a few steps to narrow down the reason why your computer will...

  • How To Fix a Zip Disk

    Over the normal course of usage, your Zip disk will have large amounts of data continuously saved, deleted and rewritten to it. Eventually the disk may become corrupted if it is used often enough...

  • Will Memory Stick Work With Windows 98?

    Microsoft introduced true plug-and-play support for USB devices such as flash drives, also known as memory sticks, starting with Windows 2000. Depending on your computer, with a little effort you...

  • How to Fix My CD Writer

    A CD writer is used to create music and data CDs. You can create personal music mixes, backup files and transport reports and other files. CDs can also be used for picture slide shows. CD writers...

  • How to Fix Atapi Compatibility When Computer Starts

    Following a change or upgrade to your computer's hard drive or optical drive, you may receive an error message such as "Primary Slave Not ATAPI Compatible." This happens because of an issue with...

  • How to Replace A Desktop's Hard Drive

    If you ever wanted to upgrade your hard drive in your desktop, either by replacing the one that is in there or installing a new one as a secondary hard drive, then you've come to the right place....

  • How to Backup Seagate Hard Disk Firmware

    Seagate hard drives are managed by a software that runs the system known as Firmware. Traditionally, firmware was installed through a difficult process that could potentially damage the computer....

  • DVD Burner Hardware Requirements

    When installing a DVD burner in your PC or laptop, it's important to understand a few things about DVD technology and its effect on your computer to avoid installation headaches. Learning about...

  • How to Install an external CD/DVD drive in a PC

    Hey do you want to burn CD's or DVD's while copying them, save time or just want an external DVD or CD drive in your PC, well just read along and follow these steps its easier then you think.

  • How to Install Windows 7 on a Secondary Hard Drive

    Installing Windows 7 on a secondary hard drive is simple. This will allow you to keep your current operating system and data and also have the newest operating available for use. If you have a...

  • How to Restore a Disk That Really Works

    Before flash drives and burnable CDs, data from a computer was saved onto a portable floppy disk. These disks were small in size, yet could only hold slightly more than 1 megabyte of information....

  • How to Install a Digital Concepts Driver

    Digital Concept converter drives are small thumb drives used to transmit the data stored on a digital memory card onto a computer. The converter drive is connected to a standard USB port on the...

  • Help With a Computer That Can't Burn CDs

    Whether your current CD burner stopped working, or your new computer doesn't have one, don't worry: CD burners are largely outdated in this day and age. There's better technology for transferring...

  • How to Add Video to an SD Card

    Adding videos to your SD card allows you to play them on your portable media device or transfer to another computer, or media application. They are ideal for storing video of different formats and...

  • How to Clear Songs Off of a CD

    From a music aficionado standpoint, one of the best parts of owning a computer is the ability to burn your own compilation CDs. No longer do you have to carry dozens of CDs from your favorite...

  • How to Make a Memory Stick a Startup Disk

    A start-up disk, which is more commonly referred to as a boot disk, allows you to boot your computer's operating system from a CD or floppy disk. If you no longer have the original start-up disk,...

  • How to Backup Files to a USB Flash Drive

    Backing up files on your hard drive to an external USB flash drive is easy. Follow these steps to easily back up files and avoid losing them in a hard drive crash. For purposes of this article I...

  • How to Find a Cheap USB Flash Drive

    A USB Flash drive is the easiest, fastest way to back up your important files. There is nothing worse than losing your pictures, music, financial spreadsheets and all the other important personal...

  • How to Fix a Broken SD Card

    An SD card is a small, removable memory device that is most often used in electronic items such as digital cameras. The cards are generally made out of plastic, so they are susceptible to damage...

  • How to Install a New CD-ROM with Hardware Problems

    Just about every aspect of a computer can be upgraded, from the amount of memory it has to the speed of the CD drive. If you are looking to install a new CD drive in your computer, it is not...

  • How to Test My Hitachi Hard Drive

    When a hard drive fails, it is often not an unexpected event. For many types of failures that can occur, the drive will exhibit subtle symptoms that can indicate a possible problem. If your...

  • How to Jumper Two SCSI Drives on a Cable

    SCSI is a data transfer protocol commonly used in servers and older Apple computers. It is far less common than the IDE or SATA protocols and is easily recognized by its smaller-than-average...

  • How to Format a SanDisk

    A SanDisk, otherwise known as a solid-state drive (SSD) or flash drive, is a small storage apparatus that operates silently and contains no moving parts. The SanDisk is considered the...

  • How to Remove Everything from your Hard Drive

    Formatting your hard drive doesn't remove all of the information off of your hard drive. This guide will show you how to remove everything from your hard drive.

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