Posts Tagged ‘Hard Drives’
How to install a hard drive
January 18th, 2010 | 
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How to install a hard drive
In college, as the burgeoning P2P world opened up before me, I spent four years moving, burning, and ultimately sacrificing the free and ambiguously legal media I had been downloading on my 20GB laptop.
Since that time PVR functionality has replaced my P2P addiction (sort of), and my used hard drive space is still bumping up against its limits. Now that I’m out of college and enjoying the luxury of a desktop computer, I need worry ..read more
Posted in Hardware | 
Tags: Advanced Technology Attachment, Ata, Bad Boy, Computer Computer, Computer Hardware, Desktop Computer, Discerning Buyer, Drive Space, Electrical Device, External Hard Drive, Hard Drives, How To Install A Hard Drive, Integrated Drive Electronics, New Hard Drive, Optical Drives, P2p, Personal Computing, Sata, Serial Advanced Technology Attachment, Storage Space | 
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5 Cool Hacks for Your Entertainment Gadgets
Add external storage to your TiVo, beef up your Xbox 360, rip DVDs to your media player, play your iTunes purchases on any device, and use your standard cable remote to skip commercials
When you’re serious about entertainment, you don’t want to settle for the standard features. You want more storage, more options, and more convenience. But most consumer electronics come with built-in limitations that can prevent you from getting maximum use out of them.
We have some tricks for getting around ..read more
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Tags: Cable Box, Cablecard, Comcast, Comcast Cable, Dvd Movies, External Hard Drive, External Storage, Frowny Face, Hacks, Hard Drives, Moderate Time, Rip Dvds, Road Blocks, Storage Menu, Technology Road, Time 2, Tivo, Tivo Series3, Video Performance, Xbox 360 |
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Master/Slave Settings vs. Cable Select
Although I covered most of the ways to speed up Windows boot time in another article, I encountered a unique roadblock recently that made me write this article.
During the last week I was asked by a customer to upgrade one of their office computers from Windows 98SE to Windows XP. Normally this is pretty standard, however because their current hard drive was only a 20GB with a gig or so remaining I wanted to upgrade their hard drive as well.
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Tags: Bios, Boot Time, Drive Connections, Ghost, Gig, Hard Drives, Jumpers, Logo Screen, Master Slave, New Hard Drive, Office Computers, Power Connector, Refresher Course, Roadblock, Secondary Slave, Windows 98, Windows Boot, Windows Logo, Windows Xp, Windows Xp Logo |
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File Recovery for Mac
File Recovery for Mac
File Recovery for Mac is a powerful data recovery software that can recover data from deleted, formatted or corrupted hard drives and restore volumes on Apple Mac computers. It’s easy to use, and because it won’t write to the drive you are recovering from it’s safe and cannot harm your data.
Use File Recovery for Mac to recover lost data whether it has been accidentally deleted, the drive has been formatted or partitioned, or if it won’t mount ..read more