Tutorials
Article | 9/03/2011
Open source FreeOTFE encrypts disks handily
FreeOTFE may sound like a political bumper sticker, but it stands for "Free On The Fly Encryption." The "Free" part is self-explanatory; "On The Fly E...
Article | 5/02/2011
Prepare your PC for future data disasters
Reformatting and restoring a PC is not fun--in the way spending 2 hours in the dentist's chair is not fun. You have to back up all your data (and pray...
Article | 5/11/2010
How to pick NAS for any business
Network-attached storage (NAS) can make your business easier to run and more efficient in multiple ways.
Article | 28/04/2010
How to: move your business to cloud computing
The Internet has changed the way people do nearly everything--from consuming media to performing research to maintaining relationships to communicatin...
Article | 2/03/2010
Move data to a safer, separate partition in Windows 7
Cedric Crawley wants to keep Windows 7 and his applications in one partition, and his data in another.
Article | 19/01/2010
Windows 7's built-in backup
Robert wants to know if Windows 7's built-in backup program is worth using.
Article | 14/01/2010
Free up hard drive space, fast
Your hard drive is full. Normally that isn't such a big deal, but what if you need to grab a coworker's files before she leaves for a vacation, or wha...
Article | 13/01/2010
Disaster-proof your PC: image your drive
Last week I told you how to make a new computer hassle-free; to wit, I described how to create a system-repair disc, dump the junkware, and set up sec...
Article | 1/01/2010
Restore data after motherboard death
Peter's motherboard died. How can he retrieve the data on his hard drive?
Article | 2/12/2009
Switching to a solid-state drive
Prices on solid-state drives are dropping, and operating systems (particularly Windows 7) are beginning to take advantage of the potential higher spee...
Article | 1/12/2009
Freebie Disk2vhd creates virtual hard drive images
Free program Disk2vhd does exactly what it sounds like it will do: turn a partition into a virtual hard drive that you can load and even boot from usi...
Article | 26/11/2009
Securely wipe a dead hard drive
Hard drives almost always contain some potentially compromising information, such as credit card and social security numbers. You should always wipe a...
Article | 20/11/2009
When the backup drive gets full
Rat74136's external hard drive is full. He asked the Answer Line forum how to keep backing up.
Article | 27/08/2009
How to: safely get rid of your hard drive
After reading "Remove sensitive data before you sell an old PC," Joel Edillon wants to know if it's a good idea to physically destroy a hard drive ins...
Article | 18/08/2009
Replace a laptop's crashed hard drive
Don Homan's hard drive crashed the day after his laptop's warranty expired. What should he do?
Article | 13/08/2009
How-To: Run applications from a flash drive
Joseph Mott wants to know if he can put applications, specifically Microsoft Office applications like Word and Excel, onto a flash drive.
Article | 24/07/2009
What size external drive?
When people talk about the "size" of a hard drive, they generally mean it's capacity--how many gigabytes of data it holds. But you should also conside...
Article | 3/07/2009
Ensuring you get pizza with sync tools
How often have you had to repeatedly copy files from one place to another either to create a backup or to synchronize two locations, and finally resor...
Article | 26/05/2009
How To: What NAS can do for the small business
Any business of any size runs on information, whether it's keeping track of accounting data or managing the flow of proposals and orders. Over the pas...
