Category: SW/HD Maintenance

How to save CD/DVD discs for long life lasting?

All the data stored on the printed side of the disc, so any scratch on this face might cause a permanent damage to the data so be careful when handling the printed face. Don’t use normal pen to write the disc’s title on the printed face, however there is a special pen type used for this purpose. Don’t put the disc on a table on it’s bottom face because this would scratch it’s surface and don’t put it on the printed face as well because this would collect dust from…

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CD/DVD disc important notes!!

CD/DVD discs are so important for every one because of many reasons, the main reasons are they’re portable and different types of files can be stored on them, so I will show you below some points on how to protect your CD/DVDs and for saving them for a longer life time lasting but before that I want to give you a brief introduction for the CD/DVD discs types. Types of CD/DVDs: CD (Compact Disc): Which is used for storing different types of data like documents, videos, audios etc…, it’s media…

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How to Upgrade my PC?

Why to Upgrade? Every new software development released, the Hardware requirements increased like new Microsoft Windows versions, new graphical editor application programs, Games …. Etc, plus when you upgrade you get almost a new PC with a very low cost comparing with a new one. How to take precautions before the upgrading? Before upgrading your computer you have to take some points in consideration: First of all think about for which purpose you want to upgrade? For instance if you want to upgrade to speed up your PC you have…

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What should I do if I have a Hard Disk Crash?

I will show you how to retrieve back your Data from a crashed Hard Disk but: I won’t guarantee you will succeed. I am not responsible if your Hard Disk stopped working and become completely dead. If you don’t want to risk, you can search for a good Data recovery specialist to help but normally it will cost you a lot of money. The bellow steps normally used when someone experienced a Hard Disk crash. Step one: Don’t try to use the chkdsk command because it might make the situation…

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Hard Disk Bad Sectors and Disk Crash

How would I know if I have bad sectors? If you discover that some of your files are missing, corrupted, unreadable, or some of your folders are not anymore accessible, this is mostly because of Bad Sectors. Bad Sectors can be discovered also by the Operating System itself by showing you error messages telling that your Hard Drive might have Bad sectors, the messages might flagged as CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Error). Note: Bad Sectors are an early signs for Hard Disk Crash. They also can cause the Instability to the…

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Hard Disk Storage size utilization

hard disk size

Why my Hard Disk Storage size shows 74.48 GB while it supposed to be 80 GB? Every body have the same question specially when someone purchase a new Hard Disk and after installing a new Microsoft Windows on it or perform the repartitioning, the Hard Disk total size will show less size than the one supposed to be. Don’t panic its normal and no one has cheated you however to describe this for you I have to go through some technical details and mathematics: As you know that the smallest…

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Hard Disk Drive important notes..

What is a Hard Disk? A Hard Disk is the place where all the personal files, folders and operating system files are stored in; it consists of several physical cylinders (called Platters) with heads pointing on them (as shown in the picture below), the cylinders spins and the hears moving over them to perform the read/write operations, it’s life time around 3-4 years. Note: The heads are not touching the surface of the cylinders hence there is a very small distance between the heads tips and the cylinders surfaces which…

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