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  • 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 | 7/01/2010 How (and why) to partition your hard drive
    Disk partitioning--separating one physical hard drive into multiple independent volumes--can relieve all sorts of computer-related headaches, and than...
  • 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 | 10/11/2009 Why is my computer slowing down?
    A41202813 asked the Answer Line forum why his once quick PC is slowing down
  • Article | 31/10/2009 How to: Reletter a drive
    Windows turned drive F: into drive G:, so the PC's owner asked the <a href="http://forums.pcworld.com/index.php?/forum/2024-answer-line/">Answer Line ...
  • Article | 18/09/2009 Play music from an external hard drive
    Daniel Shaughnessy wants iTunes and Windows Media Player to see the music on his external USB hard drive.
  • 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 | 2/04/2009 Dealing with hard drive problems
    It happens to all of us: You turn on your system and see the stomach-churning "disk not found" error. It's really not surprising considering hard driv...

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