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Don’t Be Fooled By Phony SD Cards: Do This!

November 13th, 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)

September 10th, 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

May 12th, 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)

October 1st, 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)

September 2nd, 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)

August 1st, 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)

June 22nd, 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)

June 18th, 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?

February 2nd, 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 »