Category Archives: Hard Drive

What’s On Your Hard Drive – WinDirStat

Posted on December 13, 2011 by

WinDirStat is a small download from Sourceforge which will look at your hard drive and give you a physical graphical representation of what it looks like. It will take a few minutes to scan your entire hard drive. In my … Continue reading →

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Wipe Your Entire Hard Drive

Posted on October 17, 2011 by

If you’re donating your computer to a charity, or even a friend, you may have files on the computer which are personal and you don’t want to share. Deleting these files, doesn’t actually erase the data and even formatting the … Continue reading →

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Notes from a Dead Hard Drive

Posted on August 21, 2011 by

After many years my Segate 1 gb hard drive died instantly. There was no warning, it just stopped functioning today. After trying to resuscitate it via screw-driver tapping and freezer shock, it was obviously gone. Normally I might try SpinRite … Continue reading →

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Hard Drive Crash and No Backup

Posted on August 30, 2010 by

A friend called and was lamenting that the hard drive on his laptop had died. While I usually recommend GRC’s “Spinrite,” he also told me about another product which might work – 1st NTFS Recovery. One of the nice things … Continue reading →

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Hard Drive Partitioning – Free

Posted on November 14, 2009 by

If you’ve recently bought a new Windows 7 computer, you’ve probably got a 300+ GB drive with your operating system, programs and all the pictures, text and video you transferred over to the new computer. What I like to do … Continue reading →

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$69 – 1 TB drives

Posted on July 18, 2009 by

If you’re looking to add a hard drive to your computer or upgrade your 160 GB drive to a 1000 GB drive, now’s the time to do it. Dell has a great deal on a 1 TB drive for only … Continue reading →

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