Archive for August, 2009

FAT 32 File System Frequently Asked Questions

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Microsoft’s FAT32 File System Windows 95 OSR2 provides an updated version of the File Allocation Table file system called FAT32 .

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Jumper Basics

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Jumpers are small metallic pins that protrude from the end of a hard disc drive or from its circuit board, as shown below. Jumpers are used to configure the hard disc drive’s options, such as defining master and slave or cable select . Every pin set has a specific numbering scheme, which is determined by its location on the drive

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Do I need to set any jumpers to configure my SATA drive?

Monday, August 31st, 2009

No jumpers need to be set to configure a SATA drive . Serial ATA connections take the guess work out of master/slave drive configuration , since the single drive point to point connection has been introduced. The Serial ATA host automatically determines the master and slave hard drive.

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What do I do if my hard drive reports bad sectors?

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Bad sectors can often be corrected by using a spare sector built into the hard drive. However, any information written to a bad sector is usually lost.

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Formatting an Internal or External hard drive using Mac OS

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

A step-by-step guide to formatting an ATA hard drive with a Macintosh operating system(Mac OS) . Mac OS 8.x thru 9.x Mac OS X or 10 Formatting an ATA hard drive in Macintosh operating system 8.X thru 9.X Step1.

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How to Troubleshoot SCSI/ATA hard drive combinations?

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

When SCSI drives are connected to the SCSI host adapter, with an ATA drive installed, you are unable to boot from the ATA drive. The SCSI host adapter and the ATA port on the motherboard could be set for the same IRQ or address or both. Check the following: For the primary port, the ATA ports on the motherboard will likely be set to IRQ 14, and the I/O address will likely be set to 1F0-1F7.

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Hard Disk Data Recovery Tips

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Before you venture into hard disk data recovery business, it is necessary to know the causes of hard disk failure . The causes can be either logical failture , or electrical failture or mechanical failture . Logical causes include problems with the boot sector of the hard drive which leads to non-booting of Windows

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How to Make Custom iPhone Ringtones for Free

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

You don’t have to pay for your songs twice to get a ringtone. There are many songs in your music library, but no way to make ringtones from any of them. Actually, with a little bit of trickery (nothing illegal) you can create ringtones from any of your non-DRM songs in your iTunes library easily, and for free

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Data Recovery And File Recovery Tools

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Data recovery is used when serious situations and accidents occur to your system, like when hard drives has been formatted, or if you accidentally delete a file that you really need, which is no impossible, or it can also be used when a virus enters your system and deletes some of your files and information. The great thing is that any data recovery software works sufficiently with most computers and operating systems. You can use data recovery software to recover information from your local hard drive, your extra hard drive, a floppy disk, a removable or portable hard drive, memory cards, and in most cases you could even use it to recover information from old CD?s

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What is the procedure for disconnecting an external hard drive?

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

It is important to follow the appropriate steps when disconnecting the hard drive.

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