So you just finished the last chapter of your novel. Imagine, two years and two hundred thousand words later it is complete. So now you go to start up your personal computer and send the files off to friends and publishers and your PC won’t load. In fact all you see is a bright blue [...]

Most people think that once a file has been deleted it is forever lost to the netherworld of doomed data. In truth most PC users have no idea how files are deleted and to where deleted files are deleted. Actually a deleted file is not removed from the storage device at all. It is simply [...]

I have two laptops at home from years past that are in need of repair. Each developed problems with its hard drive. One was damaged during a power outage and the other displays what is known as the blue screen of death. That being a loss of the files needed to start up the operating [...]

Does your computer hard drive make a constant clicking noise as it tries to access files? Has it failed completely? On the surface this would imply that your drive is physically damaged and the data is locked away in the broken drive. But often that clicking sound occurs not because the hard disk head is [...]

RAID Systems are collaborations of multiple hard drive disks into systems that allow fast access to data. The idea for them began almost twenty years ago when large organizations needed to stored more data and retrieve it faster. By taking data and dividing it up among many disks each could send a segment to the [...]