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• Article | 25/05/2011 Installing a SSD in a MacBook Air

  The MacBook Air has won over a large number of Apple laptop users. But in order to offer such extreme portability, the MacBook Air comes with a few tr...
• Article | 23/05/2011 Top 5 online backup services

  At DCA we regularly deal with people who come to us for data recovery. We have a pretty good track record at salvaging important files; however, in ma...
• 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 | 5/11/2010 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 | 27/10/2010 Flash Drive 101: Copying files, removing viruses

  The other day, my wife asked me how to copy a PowerPoint presentation to a flash drive so she could take it with her to school. I was a little shocked...
• Article | 21/07/2010 Creating a live USB drive from a live CD image

  Although live CDs have a lot of advantages, they don't fit in your pocket easily, which means you may not always have one around when you need it. For...
• Article | 27/04/2010 How to recover files from a NAS

  After reading Recover Missing Files, Frederic Hugues asked about recovering them from a networked-attached storage (NAS) drive.
• 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 | 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 | 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...
• Article | 14/05/2009 Full disk encryption comes to workgroups

  Losing your laptop can be expensive in three ways. First, you'll spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to replace the hardware. Second, you'll suffer...
• Article | 16/04/2009 Copy everything from your old drive to your new one

  Buying a new hard drive with lots of storage space can give your PC a new lease on life and can improve your system's performance. But you need to mak...
• 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...
• Article | 11/12/2008 Can you install a program onto an external hard drive?

  kckrug1994 asked the Answer Line Forum if a game or application would will work if installed onto an external drive.