Computer Drives & Storage

How to Buy an Internal Hard Drive

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In the last few years, average hard drive sizes have increased about 400 percent, while the price range from small to big has remained steady. For a home-built PC, you can either save money now and upgrade later, or buy a drive that will be ... more »

How to Choose Between CD-ROM and DVD-ROM Drives

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Should you buy a DVD-ROM drive or is a plain CD-ROM drive enough? Since you can play CDs on a DVD player, you might as well spring for the DVD if the price is similar... more »

How to Choose the Best External DVD Drive

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New computers are usually internally equipped with a CD/DVD reader/writer. If you are a movie buff and have an old computer, you must buy an external DVD drive. Here's how to enhance your multimedia experience by choosing the best... more »

How to Clean a Hard Drive

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Before you donate or sell your old computer, you will need to clean your hard drive. Deleting files does not actually remove them from your computer. In fact, deleted files will remain on your computer unless they are overwritten. Cleaning your ... more »

How to Connect an External CD-R or CD-RW Drive

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These instructions describe how to connect external, parallel-port CD-R or CD-RW drives (also called CD recorders or burners) to PCs. Internal CD-R or CD-RW drives and external SCSI CD drives have different installation procedures... more »

How to Defragment a Mac Hard Disk

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When files get saved, changed, and erased, file attributes can get split up, or "fragmented," in your computer's disk space, slowing down your system. You can defragment your hard disk to get things up to speed again. The article refers to Mac OS ... more »

How to Fix Bad Sectors on a Hard Disk

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The minute your computer's hard disk starts to act flaky, make sure you have an up-to-date backup. Then you can do some simple diagnostics and repairs. Both Windows and Mac OS come with built-in hard-disk utility software that scans your hard ... more »

How to Fix Bad Sectors on a Hard Disk

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Bad sectors can mean many things to a hard drive. Are they death knells? Or simple glitches? Read on to find out and learn how to fix them (hopefully)... more »

How to Format a Hard Drive in Mac OS 9

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Formatting a hard drive in Mac OS 9 uses a quick method with the Drive Setup Utility. This is not only for formatting a new hard drive, but also works for wiping clean an old one for a new system installation... more »

How to Install a New Hard Drive in a Computer

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The hard drive is one of the most important storage devices of the computer. Installing a new hard drive needs to be done with precision. It is not a lengthy process and takes less than 30 minutes to remove the existing hard drive and install a ... more »

How to Install a Second Hard Drive

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Running out of disk space is a common problem to have if you download a lot of music and movies to your computer. When you need more disk space, it is easier to add a second hard drive than it is to replace the existing drive. This procedure is ... more »

How to Install an Internal CD-RW Drive

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Forget dubbing cassette tapes. Now you can create your own CD's, filled with whatever you want: songs, pictures and other computer files... more »

How to reformat a computer with Windows 98 or ME

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Is your Microsoft Windows computer running slower than it should? Do you have an older version of Windows? Do you receive a lot of errors, pop up messages or virus warnings? Is your Antivirus software really out of date? Then it's probably ... more »

How to Select a Hard Drive

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When investigating a new or replacement hard disk, consider both capacity and speed... more »

How to test your hard drive speed.

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Ever wondered how fast your hard drive really is? This article will show you a free way to find out... more »

How to Transfer Files From Internal Hard Drive to an External Hard Drive

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You need to backup some data as your hard drive could go right this second!.. more »

How to Transfer Files to Another Computer Using a Flash Drive

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Flash drives are data transfer and storage devices. They offer storage capacity ranging between 32 MB and 2 GB. They are Mac and PC compatible and can hold most types of data. Flash drives are also called pen drives, thumb drives, USB drives and ... more »

How to Troubleshoot a Hard Drive

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The mechanism that reads and writes data on a hard disk. If you are having problems with a hard disk drive or want to look into fixing one, here are your first steps... more »

How to Burn a CDR Master

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Home recording has put professional-quality recording into the artist’s hands. Often, bands will mix a recording straight to CDR. Just like that, you’ve got a CD without a record deal. There are ways to handle that CDR so you’ll get the most ... more »

How to Buy an External Hard Drive

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Data storage in your computer is of great importance. Archiving data helps optimize work functions and for this reason, external hard drives have become increasingly popular. When it comes to buying an external hard drive, the size and price are ... more »

How to Choose a Backup Storage Device

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Time was, you could back up everything on your computer with floppy disks. Today, when one sound or graphics file could well be larger than a disk, it would be difficult to back up even your documents on floppies, let alone your applications. ... more »

How to Format and Partition a USB Jumpdrive

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Is your USB drive all cluttered up, full of commercial garbage that was installed from the factory and you want to wipe it off and start over clean? I tried using the format selection in windows with no success. I found a utility from HP that ... more »

How to Install New Hard Disk on a PC

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Gives you instructions on how to install a new hard drive to your computer.. more »

How to make your computer start faster.

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A simple set of instructions to improve the start up time of your Windows computer... more »

How to Reformat a Hard Drive

By James Davie

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You will learn how to format a hard drive.. more »

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