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I’ve asked this question a lot of times, because I seriously need a backup program. Without one, I’m just setting myself up for disaster. I haven’t lost data by a hard drive crash…yet, but without backing up my data, every day increases the risk that I will lose all of it. I have lots of [...]

My previous post talked about cloning your hard drive. This is a nice way to move your data to another hard drive, but what if you moved your data to a bigger drive and wanted to increase the partition. Windows doesn’t allow you to increase the size, so you’re left with using a partition manager.
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Just the other day, I was trying to install Windows XP Service Pack 3 on one of my virtual machines and the reason why it failed was because I had ran out of hard drive space. I thought 5 GB for XP would be enough, especially for XP, but I guess not. Since I can’t [...]

Has your computer become a little sluggish lately? Unless you have a virus/spyware/adware problem, there are other factors that can affect your system. When you move a large amount of data, disk fragmentation can occur. When you install and un-install a lot of programs, registry entries can be left behind and when you browse the [...]

Bad sectors are areas on the disk that have physical damage. No data can be written to the physical damage otherwise an data that was written there will be lost. There is a program that is built-in to Windows, called ScanDisk, that will scan the scan for you and search [...]