Virus Attacks. These are only too easy to pick up from the internet. Change your Windows settings so that you can see the true file extensions. Never click on a file that ends in .exe or .pif or .vbs as these are files that launch programs and do not open any file attachments from people you don’t know. This could result in the complete loss of data and the need to perform a data recovery.
Archive for April, 2009
Protect your System from E-Crime!
Friday, April 24th, 2009Diagnosing Hard Drive Problems
Friday, April 24th, 2009In this article we examine typical symptoms of hard drive failure and possible causes. We will identify issues that will prevent you from having to perform a hard drive data recovery.
What are the signs to look out for? While there are few sure-fire signs of impending disk failure there are some warning signals that give us the hint. Watch out for: disappearing files, very long wait while accessing files, files/folders whose contents appear to be strangely scrambled; reoccurring error messages while moving/copying/ deleting/creating files, and strange but frequent crashes of your OS.
My Book is Not Being Seen by Windows
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
My Book is Not Being Seen by Windows
OK, so the most popular external drives on the market have to be the My Book and The Passport. I get a ton of calls every week about them, and I don’t believe it is because it is not a good product but more because they are being SO widely used. So lets start with the main problem I get called about which is that Windows is not seeing the drive at all when it is plugged in. The customer does not even receive the BONG noise that a USB drive has been hooked up. Now in most cases the device seems to still be getting power.
WD external hard drives growing up!
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
western digital external hard drives
WESTERN Digital has upgraded its My Book Studio Edition, My Book Home Edition and My Book Essential Edition 2TB external hard drives, and the My Book Mac Edition 2TB drive series of external hard drive to 2TB of storage. The new external hard drives will cost around £375 and are available to consumers now.
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