Computer Drives & Storage

How to Move a Hard Drive to a New Computer

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Moving your current hard drive, also known as an HDD, into another windows computer lets you avoid hours of moving files and likely losing important data along the way. Moving an HDD from one computer to another just requires a little preparation ... more »

How to Open a DVD Door Without Turning on the Device

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You went to bed last night with that DVD you rented still resting in the player. Now you're ready to return the disk, but the machine won't power up, and you can't get the door to slide open. You can retrieve the DVD without breaking the machine... more »

How to Organize Data on an External Disk

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External drives provide an excellent way to save valuable data and secure it for future use. They come in a variety of sizes, ranging from 512MB thumb drives to massive 2TB hard drives, allowing you to find the size that's just right for your ... more »

How to Partition a Hard Drive in Mac OS X

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People partition their Mac hard drives for a number of reasons. Hard drives have become so big, it may be easier to organize files by using partitions as media scratch drives, or to create a DOS drive to work with PC files from a network. It may ... more »

How to Predict a Hard Drive Crash

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The hard drive, also known as an HDD, is the hardware most likely to fail without notice yet it holds all of the information on a computer. Backing up the HDD is important but being able to predict a hard drive failure can save time, money and ... more »

How to Prevent a Hard Drive Crash

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A hard drive crash can be a devastating experience--entire years of emails, financial documents and other precious files are instantly lost and sometimes irretrievable. As nasty as hard drive crashes can be, the good news is that they're easily ... more »

How to Prevent Data Loss on Your Hard Drive

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Data loss on your hard drive can be devastating. Unfortunately, there is no foolproof method for data protection. Regular preventative measures are your best defense against losing your data. Most of your best options are easily accessible and ... more »

How to Properly Hold a DVD

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Digital video discs, or DVDs, provide optical data storage on a thin polycarbonate disc that can be read by a laser in a DVD player or a computer. Because the shiny surface can be marred with fingerprints and smudges, it is important to hold a ... more »

How to Protect Private Data on USB Flash Drive

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USB flash drives make it easy to carry your data with you and to use it on any computer. However, carrying private data on your USB flash drive is also risky, because tiny flash drives are easily mislaid, lost, or even stolen. Taking proactive ... more »

How to Protect Your Computer or Laptop

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You've made that investment with a healthy amount of cash out of pocket to show for it. Now, you need to know how to protect your computer or laptop, especially when you're traveling... more »

How to Recover Data From a Hard Drive

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Sooner or later you will look for a file on your hard drive and you will get a file recovery error. Even worse, you may try to boot up your computer and it won't be able to find your hard drive. You may have fair warning (like you did something ... more »

How to Recover Data On Your Mac

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Here's how to recover data on your mac. Data recovery can take many forms, from software to physical solutions where you mail your drive away... more »

How to Remove the Back Art From a CD Case

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Removing back art from CD cases may seem difficult at first, but with a little practice, patience and strength, you can take apart your CD case and retrieve the back art. Whether you want to re-use the CD case or use the back art somewhere else, ... more »

How to Repartition a Hard Drive Without Reformatting

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Dividing a large hard disk into smaller disks is desirable for a number of reasons. You can use them for different types of storage. Once the hard disk has been setup and partitioned when the drive is new, Windows doesn't provide a way to divide ... more »

How to Replace a CD Case

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Broken and lost CD cases are the bane of every music lover's existence. Fret not-read the suggestions below for some creative ways you can replace your CD cases. Printer paper, duct tape and other materials elevate CD cases to an art form... more »

How to replace a cdrom drive

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Is your computers CD drive bad you will learn how to replace your computers CD drive in this article... more »

How to Save an Image on a Computer to a Memory Card

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Saving images from you computer to an outside memory source allows you to share your photos or other images with family, take them to get prints or simply to secure them from any possible computer meltdown... more »

How to Save Instant Messages to a DVD

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Instant messaging is quickly replacing parcel as the primary form of communication. Instant messages are a quick and efficient way to communicate with anyone, from your coworkers to your neighborhood friends. Saving instant messages to DVD disc ... more »

How to save movies in an economic way

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Downloading movies is an easy task but then what, are you going to fill up your hard drive? Each movie occupies 700mb of memory on average. If you can afford you can buy an external hard drive but what about people who can't really afford one or ... more »

How to securely erase a hard drive on your Mac

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This will show you how to securely erase a hard drive so that you can safely sell the drive or your computer without worrying about someone recovering your data... more »

How to Store Data Files on Your Creative Zen Player

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Storing data files on your Creative Zen player will allow you to transport necessary documents to and from the office and home for associate meetings. You can also use this feature when in college classes to transport important information from ... more »

How to Store Floppy Disks

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Floppy disks would seem to be on the edge of extinction, thanks to the greater storage capacity available on CD's and flash drives. Yet millions of floppy disks are sold each year. One reason could be simplicity. Floppy disks are still one of the ... more »

How to Store Media for a Post-Production Home Studio

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When in post-production of a video or movie, it is essential to have the proper resources to save your work. Having the best option will facilitate timely and quality work. The best way to go in saving large video files is with external storage... more »

How to Swap a Hard Drive Controller Circuit

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The center of your computer's mind is the hard disk, where the computer stores all your information and keeps all the programs that you run. One of the most devastating things is to have a hard disk crash and not be able to recover the lost data ... more »

How to Swap Hard Disk Drive Platters

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A hard disk drive platter is a flat disk made of cobalt-based metal alloy and coated with a thin film of magnetized material. The platter is where electronic data is magnetically stored for retrieval and use by your computer system. If the ... more »

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