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A Solid State Hard Drive or SSD refers to the hard drive which physical components doesn’t include any moving parts like spinning platters, moving heads etc. Rather consist of flash memory chips. These hard drives use special kind of semiconductor devices with erasable, writable cells. When compared to traditional hard drive it is found that these solid drives are less prone to the condition of failure as there are no moving parts, there is less that can go wrong mechanically as for example there is no head so its crashing problem is the matter of past. Additionally damages due to heat or heavy impact on hard drive are no more in action with the use of solid state drives use. Continue Reading »

In computers, Backup is the method of making copies of your precious data so that these copies can be used to restore the original data after data loss event. Backups are generally useful for two purposes:

1.    To restore a state following a disaster (known as disaster recovery)
2.    To restore selected files after they have been deleted accidentally
Backups are usually the last line of protection against data loss, and thus the last granular and the last suitable to use.
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An EBR (Extended Boot Record), or EPBR (Extended Partition Boot Record), is a logical partition descriptor for Windows hard drive partitions. It controls and manages the data stored on the particular logical partition. Every logical partition has its separate EBR and one entry of EBR table is stored in MBR or Master Boot Record. EBR is stored on the very first sector of extended (logical) hard drive partition. The EBR is used for following purposes:

1.    Holding the Logical partition table of the particular partition
2.    Storing starting and ending point (sector) of the logical partition
3.    Storing pointer to the next EBR, if any. Continue Reading »

Sabotage is a premeditated action aimed on weakening an opponent, or oppressor through disruption, obstruction, destruction and/or supervision. It is a conscious damage or destruction of equipment in order to obstruct a particular group or organization.

In case of computers, the sabotage means to an action in which a malicious user physically or logically harms a computer system. These are the unauthorized users, who can physically break down your computer hard drive or can logically delete all the data or format the hard drive. These users can also delete data by accessing your system from network or Internet. In this case, these users are generally known as hackers. Continue Reading »

Have you ever had to tolerate the threats of a computer system crash? It is a heavy load to bear, isn’t it?
It is comprehensible when anyone who faces a computer crash gets nervous and frightened. You may think that everything of yours has been stolen and all your vital data and documents will be wiped out from your computer hard drive forever.

No fears, there are still many ways out of the disaster. Remember! Every problem has its solution, and computer crashes and data loss are of no exception. Continue Reading »

Operating system or OS is system software that manages and controls the computer resources and gives users with an interface used to access these resources. OS can be found for almost every device that is made with ICs like PC, Internet Servers, portable music players, cell phones, digital cameras and video games. There are five most popular computer operating systems including Windows, Linux, UNIX, Mac and Novell. Among these Windows and Linux are the most widely used and most popular operating systems.

But both these operating systems, Windows and Linux, are completely different in technology, interface and reliability. The main differences between Windows and Linux are as follows: Continue Reading »

Several computer users store their important data and information on their computers. From individual information, family pictures to business data. Losing these data can generally be very shocking. Sending your system to a data recovery professional can outlay hundreds or thousands of dollars depending on how severe the data loss is. Therefore it will be wise decision to regularly backup your data and to prevent the data loss.

Windows Vista has a built in file backup tool. You can schedule this backup tool to regularly backup your data on specified storage device. You should always backup your data on external storage devices like hard drive and zip drives. This ensures that the data will be safe in case if you’re primary hard drive fails. Continue Reading »

Computer crashing is one of the most common problems today. Most users recognize it as “Blue Screen of Death”. It can be very frustrating experience for you. it is very terrifying, mostly when you were about to complete some important work and you forgot to save it. All of your data is lost because your computer has crashed.

The computer can crash due to recently installed software or hardware. Prior to crash, the system will probably start acting differently. It may include things like going slow and even hanging. In some cases, the computer crashing can be fixed by common tweaking with your computer registry. Continue Reading »

You may loss your precious data stored on your computer hard drive after you repair, reinstall or upgrade your Windows XP. You may also loss your default settings, application programs, start menu shortcuts, documents, music files and pictures.

This problem occurs when you perform any of the following operation with your windows XP computer:
1.    Repair XP by booting your computer with XP boot disk.
2.    Reinstall XP by clicking “Install Windows XP” option on the welcome screen of Windows XP when you boot with boot disk
3.    When you upgrade the service pack or edition of your Windows XP. For example from SP1 to SP2 or from Windows XP home to Windows XP professional Continue Reading »

Data loss is the most annoying thing for computer users. It can occur due to a number of reasons ranging from user error to system failure. Whatever the reason, data loss can put you in a big trouble.

When it comes to the data loss, the most important thing to realize is that the data you have deleted accidentally or lost due to system errors actually doesn’t remove from the computer hard drive. All that happens is the entry of the particular file and folder is removed from the file system and operating system can’t find these files when you try to access them.
The storage clusters of the file or folder are not changed at all. You may think that the data lost or deleted has gone forever but actually the data remain intact on your hard drive.
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