Recovering Your Data After a Fire

Apr 18, 2014

You’ve had a house fire. You, your family and your pets are all safe and unharmed, but your possessions have been badly damaged by heat and smoke. As you sort through your charred belongings trying to figure out what you can fix and what’s beyond repair, you come across your laptop, badly damaged but not […]

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Bad Sectors? Learn More about them.

Apr 17, 2014

A bad sector is a small section of the hard drive that becomes damaged and can no longer have data written to it. In most cases a bad sector is a relatively minor problem: while it can affect both traditional magnetic and newer solid state drives, both types of drive are designed with a certain […]

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Learn How to Back Up Your Computer

Apr 15, 2014

The more we rely on computers, the more valuable the data on them becomes, and the more painful it is when something goes wrong. While data recovery is possible after a crash, it’s far better to back up regularly before disaster strikes. Here’s how. Use an External Hard Drive External drives offer a lot of […]

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Hard Drive Making Noise? Clicking?

Apr 14, 2014

Computers are prone to making all sorts of unusual noises – whirrs, beeps and musical tones – but one sound you never want to hear is the sound of your hard drive clicking. Often called the “click of death”, the sound of a clicking hard drive is usually caused by one of the drive heads […]

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How to Recover Data from a RAID Array

Apr 13, 2014

A RAID is a storage technology that allows you to store large amounts of data with built-in security against data loss. It does this by spreading the workload across multiple disk drives, so that if one fails, another can pick up the task. Like most external storage solutions, RAIDs are available at multiple levels of […]

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Dead Laptop? Learn how to recover data from it.

Apr 11, 2014

Modern laptops are miracles of engineering: they are able to host files, run programs, enable us to play games, stream videos and hundreds of other things as well. Unfortunately, the more functions a piece of machinery has, the more things there are that can go wrong. A catastrophic laptop failure is fairly rare, but it […]

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5 Things to Consider when Choosing an External Hard Drive

Apr 9, 2014

Having an external hard drive is practically essential in today’s data-driven world. Keeping all your files on a single computer is inconvenient, unwieldy and risks losing everything if your computer fails, so keeping your files backed up on an external hard drive adds an extra level of security to your data, ensuring that if one […]

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Windows XP: How Much Is It Worth To You?

Apr 7, 2014

Windows XP was Microsoft’s most popular operating system ever. It’s been 12 years since its original launch and it still serves almost 38% of the world’s computers, which is more than a third. Many people, especially businesses, don’t want to upset the long and uninterrupted use of Windows XP. Unfortunately, support for Windows XP ends […]

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What is Office 2003 End of Life

Apr 4, 2014

Any person, product, or program that has worked long and hard deserves retirement. Although there is widespread discontent and disagreement, Windows XP after having a good 12 year run is being retired, along with its long time partner Office 2003. There are plenty of New Jersey computer users that still use XP, who need to […]

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Windows XP – End of Life – What this means!

Apr 3, 2014

For those of you who don’t know, the support for Windows XP will be ending on April 8th. This quickly approaching deadline will have a worldwide effect on computing. 38% of the world’s computers are still running Windows XP, and probably will until the end. If they do not upgrade, there might be dire consequences […]

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