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Don’t Be Fooled By Phony SD Cards: Do This!
» by Randy Knowles November 13, 2019 at 8:28 pm » Comments (1)
Beware of Counterfeit SD Cards! Hello everyone, My clients love their photos. Many still take them using very nice DSLR and/or Point and Shoot Cameras. They buy and use many ...more »Computer Repair Tools That I Can’t Live Without (Part 11: Zalman ZM-VE200 HDD Case)
» by Randy Knowles September 10, 2012 at 2:27 pm » Comments (1)
Hello everyone, In the past year and a half or so I’ve repaired over 350 computers. In this series I’m describing the very repair tools that I use daily. If you ...more »How I Predict And Prevent Hard Drive Failure: Five Great Tools
» by Randy Knowles May 12, 2012 at 7:49 pm » Comments (0)
Hello everyone, Many of my computer repair jobs involve the hard drive in one way or another. Lately I've been seeing about three hard drive failures per week. In a previous ...more »Computer Repair Tools That I Can’t Live Without (Part 5: Clonezilla)
» by Randy Knowles October 1, 2011 at 5:01 pm » Comments (1)
Hello everyone, This is part 5 of a series. You can see parts 1,2, 3, and 4 by clicking on the numbers. How would you like to copy the entire contents of ...more »Computer Repair Tools That I Can’t Live Without (Part 3: Fab’s AutoBackup)
» by Randy Knowles September 2, 2011 at 7:54 pm » Comments (1)
Hello everyone, In part 1 of this series I talked about my favorite Junk File Cleaners, and in part 2 I told you about the incredible USB Drive Adapter. Today, my ...more »Computer Repair Tools That I Can’t Live Without (Part 2: USB Drive Adapter)
» by Randy Knowles August 1, 2011 at 2:43 pm » Comments (3)
Hello everybody, In part 1 of this series I talked about my four favorite junk file cleaners. In this post I would like to tell you about a tool that literally ...more »How I Recover Data From A Failed Hard Drive (Method #2)
» by Randy Knowles June 22, 2011 at 10:20 am » Comments (0)
Hello everyone, I see it all of the time. A clients hard drive will no longer boot up into the Operating System and panic sets in! When I go to ...more »How I Recover Data From A Failed Hard Drive (Method #1)
» by Randy Knowles June 18, 2011 at 2:16 pm » Comments (0)
Hello everyone, I see it all of the time. A clients hard drive will no longer boot up into the Operating System and panic sets in! When I go to their ...more »Have You Considered RAID 1 As A Backup Strategy?
» by Randy Knowles February 2, 2011 at 1:57 pm » Comments (0)
Hello everyone, As a computer technician I can't tell you how many times I have been called by clients who have lost all of their data because they have neglected to ...more »Backup, Backup, Backup!!
» by Randy Knowles December 16, 2009 at 3:49 am » Comments (0)
Hello everyone, Today I'm giving you a great CNET video by Tom Merritt. Tom shows you the best methods for backing up your data ...more »