How To Move Windows Software To Another Hard Drive Without Breaking Anything
Move any Windows program to another hard drive, without breaking the program. If your primary hard drive is full, and what you've put on there is software, SymMover is what you're looking for. Many people add a second hard drive to their computer when the first one fills up. Moving files - such as music, videos or photos - is a simple matter. Moving software, at least on a Windows system, isn't.
Find Out How Healthy And Fast Your Hard Drive Is With These Two Free Windows Applications
The platters of a hard disk drive are spin around at 5400 or 7200 PRM (and sometimes even faster) for countless hours. You would do well to check on their health every now and then. Even if your hard drive is perfectly healthy, it may still pose a performance bottleneck on your system. So how can you tell if your hard drive is healthy, and how can you tell how fast it is?
Back Up Your Entire Hard Drive With Redo Backup & Recovery
Easily make a copy of your entire hard drive . Don't just back up your data: back up all of your software, your settings and everything else by cloning your entire hard drive. Redo Backup makes cloning your system easy, but also gives you access to file recovery and a variety of other tools. You can even browse the web while everything's happening.
Hard Drive Prices Begin To Rise Because Of Thailand Flooding [News]
As large as our world is, industries sometimes converge geographically because of local policy, labor prices, and convenience. Such is the case in Thailand, a place that hosts many of the world’s hard disk manufacturing facilities – and a place that’s recently been struck by tragic flooding. Because of the floodwaters, companies like Western Digital have had their supply of products drastically cut.
Prevent Your Hard Drives From Going To Sleep With KeepAliveHD
This must have happened to you often enough: while working on something from your hard drive (no matter if internal or external), the system eventually puts it into a "sleep mode" where it'll take a while to wake up again before it'll finally be able to do what you actually want it to do. This problem is now solved thanks to an open source developer who had a simple idea that honestly works quite well.
The Best External Hard Drives You Should Consider Buying [Gadget Corner]
Ah, the external hard drive. This unsung hero of the gadget world can be found on almost any geek’s desk, usually tucked away behind a monitor or stuffed in a drawer. Yet it’s of great importance, as it’s often used to back up critical data or store a library of music, videos and photos. There are plenty of drives available, but most of us only need one or two, so let’s narrow down the choices.
How To Reformat Your FAT32 Drive To NTFS - And The Advantages Of Doing It
You may not know it, but choosing the right filesystem for your drives is actually pretty important. Although the main idea of all filesystems is the same, there are many advantages and disadvantages over each one. While there are many more filesystems out there, we'll be looking at the most popular two, FAT32 and NTFS.
5 Tools To Permanently Delete Sensitive Data From Your Hard Drive [Windows]
In a recent article I explained why it is impossible to recover data from a hard drive after overwriting it. In that post I mentioned that simply deleting files or formatting your hard drive typically does not remove or overwrite files at all, meaning they can still be recovered. If this information made you a little nervous, let me connect the pieces for you.
Why It Is Impossible To Recover Data From An Overwritten Hard Drive [Technology Explained]
Recovering deleted data from a hard drive is generally possible because typically the actual data is not deleted. Instead, information about where the data is stored is removed. In this article I will explain how data is stored on a hard drive, what happens when files are deleted, what formatting a hard drive does, and why it is impossible to recover files after they were overwritten.
Find Duplicate & Similar Images On Your Hard Drive With SimilarImages [Windows]
The main reason why you would want to delete similar images is to save some space on your hard drive. Going through your image folder deleting extra images is too time consuming. Besides, many of the similar images can have different names which makes identifying them almost impossible. Luckily, there's a free tool to semi-automate the process.
How To Partition An External Hard Drive For PC Usage [Mac]
As you may know, Mac formatting and PC formatting for external hard drives are totally different. Granted, it's possible you may already know how to partition an external hard drive DIY-style. Furthermore, your hard drive may already come with onboard software that does it for you. However, let's take a look at how to do so.
Defraggler: Better Defragmentation Software For Windows
Alternative defragmentation tools have been mentioned for years and years now, as most people deem the default defragmenter that comes with Windows to be insufficient. There are plenty of different solutions that try to out-do each other, some free and some paid. However, you can't just pick any free solution. You need to know which ones actually make a difference on your system.
Should You Get A Solid State Drive (SSD)? [Opinion]
If you've kept up with some of the latest news about new computer parts, you may have heard about SSDs, or solid state drives. They are designed to replace your clunky, slow hard drive and give your system a major performance boost. However, some people have experienced some hiccups by using these new pieces of technology, including usage and price. Here we're going to discuss the exact pros and cons of owning a solid state drive and whether such an investment would be right for you.
dupeGuru Finds Duplicate Files [Cross Platform]
Quickly find duplicate files on your hard drive, so you can delete them and save precious storage space. You'll be surprised how much of your storage is used to house the same files twice. There are many ways you can end up having duplicate files. Whatever the cause, dupeGuru can help you find duplicates so you can delete them.
The Difference Between Windows Full Format & Quick Format [Technology Explained]
When installing Windows, the installer will ask you a strange question - how do you want to format your hard drive? For Windows systems, there are only a few possible answer choices. You either format it in NTFS or FAT, or you format it in NTFS or FAT (quick). Have you ever stopped to wonder what the difference actually is between a full and quick format?
7 Tips to Survive Your Move to a Smaller Solid State Drive
If you keep yourself updated with stories from the tech world, you will know that Solid State Drives are the future when it comes to storage drives in personal computers - especially in the mobile computing arena. SSD allows PC manufacturers to build much faster and more energy-efficient machines. But can we survive living with SSD's minuscule capacity?
GetFoldersize Calculates Hard Disk Usage Quickly & Easily [Windows]
Have you ever went to download something only to realize that your hard drive is almost full? Have you even wondered where all of your space is going? I know I have, and fortunately GetFoldersize is here to rectify the situation by calculating the exact amount of space every single folder on your computer is using.
Change & Delete Windows Drive Letters with DriveLetterView
In Windows operating systems, hard drive partitions and external drives are identified by drive letters from A to Z. Some of the letters are reserved, but other partitions or optical drives are assigned subsequent letters. In some cases, however, a permanent drive letter assignment is desirable. Here's how you can permanently assign drive letters to selected devices.
How To Shrink & Extend Volumes Or Partitions in Windows 7
In Windows 7 and Windows Vista, resizing your volumes or re-partitioning your hard drive has become a lot easier than in previous Windows versions. However, there are still a few pitfalls that will require you to use third party applications rather than the internal Windows Disk Management tool. In this article I will show you how to change the size of volumes or create new ones and which tools to use.
Combine All Your Hard Drives Into One Seamless Storage Container With LVM [Linux]
If you tend to use up a lot of storage, you'll probably have had some storage problems. You might still have a lot of empty hard drives lying around, but splitting up all your data across these drives would be confusing in the long run. However, there's an easy way to combine all of those hard drives into one seamless storage container with a Linux technology called LVM, which is short for "Logical Volume Management".