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New Site: Northtowns Orthopedics
When you think hip arthroscopy, what’s the first place that comes to mind? Northtowns Orthopedics, of course. Dr. Peter Gambacorta and co. provide comprehensive orthopedics services and sports medicine throughout Western New York. Now they have a comprehensive web site … Continue reading
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Your Digital Business Card
If you can’t decide on a full-fledged web site for your company, or you’d simply prefer to keep things to the point, consider a digital business card. You’ll get a domain name like yourcompany.com with e-mail service and a simple … Continue reading
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Repairing USB port failure
We regularly see computers with broken and failed USB ports being brought in for repair. While USB ports used to be a novelty and convenience on computers, increasingly computers require working USB ports for the keyboard and mouse. Computer manufacturers … Continue reading
Thailand Flooding Affects Hard Drive Prices
The flooding in Thailand in October and November 2011 forced the closing of all of the hard drive assembly factories for Western Digital. Seagate does not manufacture or assemble hard drives in Thailand, but it does rely on suppliers located … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, Hardware
Tagged disc drives, hard drives, price increase, Western Digital
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Removing fake System Fix and Win 7 anti-virus
The System Fix fake anti-virus is a Windows program that hides all files and displays multiple fake warning messages. This fake anti-virus changes names every few weeks, using names like System Fix, Win 7, etc. This fake program is installed … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, fake anti-virus, Internet
Tagged fake anti-virus, Kaspersky, rootkit, system fix, TDSSkiller, unhide
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Interpreting S.M.A.R.T. data from hard disc drives
Introduced in 1995 on all IDE, SATA, SSD and SCSI hard drives is a feature described as S.M.A.R.T., an acronym for self monitoring and analysis technology. This is a set of data that is accumulated and stored inside a hard … Continue reading
Best Practices for Backup
Every computer relies on the hard disk drive inside to store programs and data. When a failure occurs and the drive cannot be used, restoring files from a backup is necessary. However, there are many approaches to backup and not … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, FAQ, Hardware, Software
Tagged backup, failure, hard drive, Novastor, USB
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Understanding Hard Disk Drive Failure
The most common and critical failure on any laptop, desktop or server computer involves hard disk drive failure. Since the programs and data on a computer require the hard drive to operate correctly, any problems with the hard disk drive … Continue reading
Making the best RAID choice for a server
When configuring the disk drives on a Windows or Linux server, it is preferable to use RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks) instead of a single hard drive. However, all RAID configurations are not equal, and some are preferable. In … Continue reading
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Tagged disk mirroring, disk striping, fault tolerance, Linux, RAID, Windows server
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Free loaner computers
Starting October 2011, we are making available free computers on loan during repairs. Simply bring in your laptop or desktop for repair, and you’ll get your choice of laptop or desktop on loan during the repair. The loaner computers will … Continue reading