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this wikihow teaches you how diagnose and potentially recover a dead or dying hard drive (also known as a hard disk). keep in mind that following these instructions does not

if you have an old and dusty computer on your hands, you may be looking for a way to destroy it to keep your information safe or to get it out of the hands of you. the way you

this wikihow teaches you how to create a system restore point on your windows or mac computer. open start . click the windows logo in the bottom-left corner of the screen.

this wikihow teaches you how to defragment a hard drive, a process that rearranges and better utilizes the space on the drive to improve your pc's performance. though defragmenting

is your computer running slower than molasses in january? if so, or if you just want a speed boost, there's a variety of tricks and optimizations you can perform to help increase

this wikihow teaches you how to fix a disk error on a corrupted or damaged hard drive. you can do this on both windows and mac computers. keep in mind that hard drives which have

file corruption errors, data corruption errors, crc errors, smart crc errors...have you ever been struck by these errors? these are most commonly caused by hard drive cable issues

so you want to make sure that someone can't get their hands on your private files on a hard drive. here are ways to render your data completely unreadable. when files are deleted

this wikihow teaches you how to divide your computer's hard drive into two distinct sections (or 'partitions'). partitioning a hard drive allows you to treat the hard drive like

this wikihow teaches you how to move files from your computer onto a hard drive, or vice versa. this is possible for both external hard drives and internal hard drives on both

this wikihow teaches you how to copy files that are on your computer onto a portable hard drive, flash drive, or memory card. determine the connection type for the hard drive and

raid is a great way to add additional security and redundancy to a computer workstation. a raid array is a setup of two or more hard drives that have been synchronized to provide

a properly maintained computer will provide you with substantially higher speeds, both online, and offline, regardless of your hardware setup and configurations. the second law of

this wikihow teaches you how to transfer your os to an ssd on pc or mac. before you can transfer your os (operating system) to a new hard drive, you need to connect it to your

this wikihow will teach you how to use the windows 10 tools to remove all data from your hard drive. plug your computer into a power supply. if you're using a laptop, you'll want

if you just upgraded to a new hard drive, you might want to migrate your current system to the new drive, however, windows doesn't make it easy. this wikihow teaches you how to

when you get a computer you like, you also want to get an operating system you like. but sometimes, having one operating system you like simply isn't enough. you may like two

this wikihow teaches you how to format any hard drive connected to your windows 10 pc. if you just want to format one drive connected to the pc, you can do so using the disk

windows vista is known for taking up a lot of memory, but here are a few ways to make it run faster. click the start orb and type regedit into the search box, then press enter. if

this wikihow teaches you how to fix an 'external hard drive not detected' error on your computer. there are a number of issues that can cause an external hard drive to not be