Computer Drives & Storage

How to Use an External Hard Drive on Your PC

By Tomiko Cary

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An external hard drive can be used to store digital images, large music files, large documents and other personal files that may take up too much space on your computer’s original manufactured hard drive. External hard drives are portable and ... more »

How to Use an External Hard Drive With Multiple Computers

By eHow Computers Editor

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Portable hard drives have grown in popularity. They offer a wide range of storage capacity and cross-platform compatibility in today’s computing world. These drives are available in various sizes—from one gigabyte (GB) to 400 GB. They are ... more »

How to a large Music Library with an External Hardrive and Itunes

By killiankoenig

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If you have a very large music collection that is taking up valuable space on your hard drive, then this is the tutorial for you. Learn how to properly manage your music with an external hard drive... more »

How to Add a New Hard Drive in Your Computer

By svicinanza

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These are a few easy steps to having your new hard disk drive up and running in no time... more »

How to Add Files to a USB Drive

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USB drives are great for storing files, and are a compact solution when moving files to another computer or even another city! They don't get scratched like CDs do, and come in a range of sizes, shapes and colors... more »

How to Append Files to a DVD

By eHow Computers Editor

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DVDs much like their predecessor, the CD, burn information or data to the surface of the disk. The functionality of many burning programs allows you to burn information to the disk in different sessions. This functionality creates a multi-session ... more »

How to Attach a Firewire Drive to Your Computer

By eHow Computers Editor

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FireWire is the Apple corporation's brand name for the IEEE 1394 interface cable that makes high-speed communications possible. FireWire is mostly used for data transfer with external drives, DV camcorders, webcams and digital movie players. Now ... more »

How to Autorun Portable Apps off of a CD

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Portable apps are EXE files that run from a portable device such as a flash drive, CD or DVD. Autorunning portable apps from a CD allows you to run applications on a computer without installing them to a hard drive. Using a CD or other external ... more »

How to Back Up a Blog

By eHow Internet Editor

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Afraid of seeing all the work you've put into your blog just disappear? Take the time to back up your entries before you lose them... more »

How to Back Up a Hard Drive

By eHow Computers Editor

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Backing up a hard drive is an activity that many computer users neglect to do on a regular basis. The hard drive holds all of the information input by the user and stores all of those data on small delicate plates. Any failure of these parts can ... more »

How to Back Up Data on a Pocket PC to a Computer

By eHow Electronics Editor

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If you back up the data on your pocket PC to your computer, you can restore lost files in case of deletion or system corruption. Microsoft ActiveSync makes backing up easy. Just follow these instructions... more »

How to Back up Your Data to a USB Memory

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When your hard drive crashes it is too late to save of any of your data. Get into the habit of backing up your data to a USB Memory... more »

How to Backup a DVD Onto a VCD

By eHow Computers Editor

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There are a number of ways to compress a DVD and back it up onto a Video CD, or VCD for short. One of the best ways is to use a video editing suite like Nero to recode the DVD video files and transfer them to VCD. Although Nero is somewhat ... more »

How to Backup Your Files' Structure

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Reliable backups are an important part of system administration and disaster recovery. UNIX, by default, includes the tools to back up your files' structure effectively. In addition, regular recovery drills should be performed in order to ensure ... more »

How to Become a Better Systems Engineering Professional

By Edward Contreras

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To better understand your role as a systems engineer, the fluidity with which you can adapt to knowing the volume of managerial responsibilities that subsume your team is a great place to start. Upon understanding what makes life easier for the ... more »

How to Build a Computer easy

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Learn to build a computer.. more »

How to Build your own External FireWire/IEEE 1394 Drive

By jjarrell

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For many, there comes a point when the available internal hard drive space simply can no longer accommodate the ever-increasing number of files. The most efficient and cost effective method for freeing up an overtaxed internal hard disk is to ... more »

How to Burn A CD

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For anyone ever confused about burning a cd.. more »

How to Burn a CD

By Tajuana

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You have a CD burner in your computer, but have no idea how to burn a CD, well here's how... more »

How to Burn a CD Multiple Times on a Mac

By Alexia Petrakos

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Don't have any CD-RWs laying around? Does it seem like a waste of space to put only a couple of files on a CD-R? Using Apple's Disk Utility, you can keep the disk open and ready to accept more files as you need to add them. Here is how... more »

How to Burn an ISO Image

By Naz Ir

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You might have downloaded an ISO or BIN image from the Internet and need to burn it. Here's how you do it, with a free program called DVDDecrypter... more »

How to Buy a Broadband Modem

By eHow Computers Editor

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A broadband modem is a device used for broadband Internet access (DSL or cable) for single PCs. Assess the features of a broadband modem and its compatibility with your Internet service as well as your computer before buying one. Here’s how:.. more »

How to Buy a CD-ROM Drive

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For the last several years, most desktop computers have come with CD-ROM drives. If you're adding a drive to an older computer, make especially sure the computer fulfills the drive's system requirements. CD-ROM drives can be internal (inside the ... more »

How to Buy a Hard Drive to Store all of Your Digital Movies

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Digital movies and multimedia files take up a lot of space on your computer's hard drive. Because they can slow down your computer, you'll need a hard drive where you can store them. Still, you should be selective about what you keep. Even your ... more »

How to Buy a Hard Drive to Store MP3 Files

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Music lovers often complain of a storage problem, especially when they want to download and store several MP3 files on their computer. The better the quality of audio, the more space is required to store the MP3 format. Here is how to buy a hard ... more »

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