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How CD ROM works (Animated video)

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How CD rom works

CD-ROM (Compact Disc, read-only-memory) is an adaptation of the CD that is designed to store computer data in the form of text and graphics, as well as hi-fi stereo sound. The original data format standard was defined by Philips and Sony in the 1983 Yellow Book. Other standards are used in conjunction with it to define directory and file structures, including ISO 9660, HFS (Hierarchal File System, for Macintosh computers), and Hybrid HFS-ISO. Format of the CD-ROM is the same as for audio CDs: a standard CD is 120 mm (4.75 inches) in diameter and 1.2 mm (0.05 inches) thick and is composed of a polycarbonate plastic substrate (underlayer - this is the main body of the disc), one or more thin reflective metal (usually aluminum) layers, and ...

Free data recovery software

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Free data recovery software

Who loves losing things? We have never met anyone yet who enjoys losing things.  Who doesn’t know that “awesome” feeling when you can’t find your keys or your cellphone?  If you want to never lose your keys again use data recovery software. Of course, that was a joke. Data recovery software helps you recover what you’ve lost virtually, not in the real world.

Let’s say you have a very important paper to write. Maybe it’s an essay, maybe a thesis. Your paper should have 50 pages. You write 48 pages in two weeks and in the end, because of exhaustion, you erase everything by mistake. You feel like the whole world is crashing over you. You wish the earth would open and fall beneath it. This is an exaggeration but the feeling is .... READ MORE

Tips for buying external hard drives

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Tips for buying external hard drives

tips for buying external hard drives

External hard drives are great way to back up your favourite photos, videos, music and work documents – especially as they can be stored separately, ensuring your important files remain safe should anything happen to your laptop or computer. If you’ve never bought an external hard drive before then there’s a few pointers here that may help to have on your shopping list before you go and make that final purchase

Seagate File Recovery Software

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Seagate File Recovery Software

Seagate File Recovery is an advanced, easy to use, data recovery and undelete software. It helps you to recover your lost files from local hard disks and other removable media.

Consider using Seagate File Recovery if:

Replacing PCB in Hard Drives

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Replacing PCB in Hard Drives

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Recovery data from dead hard drives which do note that disassembling a hard drive is not recommended and can result to permanent data loss and further damage to your drive.  If your data is business critical, please seek professional help.

iPhone Data Recovery

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iPhone Data Recovery

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iPhone needs to be jailbroken to do this (tested on my iPhone 4, with iOS 4.0.1 using the www.jailbreakme.com jailbreaker). You don’t need OpenSSH installed, but I prefer it. If you install OpenSSH, connect using root@iphoneipaddress, password ‘alpine’ – I suggest changing this using the `passwd` command while you’re at it. MobileTerminal currently doesn’t work on iOS 4.0.1, atleast on the iPhone 4

Network Attached Storage NAS and Other Nightmares

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Network Attached Storage NAS and Other Nightmares

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Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices have been a boon for storage technology.  What a great windfall for the industry.  Grab yourself an Open Source operating system, stick it on a prom, get yourself an inexpensive motherboard, some hard drives and presto chango, abbrakadabbra you got yourself a $1000.00 4 terabyte storage device that will mount on the network using a gigabyte transfer rate.  NAS

Recovering from a RAID Controller Failure

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Recovering from a RAID Controller Failure

There are many reasons why a RAID goes down.  A technician will normally assume that one or more of the drives have failed.  This is a common diagnosis as the diagnostic lights on each of the drives may be blinking, the lights may have gone amber, or in some cases the drive may not be spinning up at all.  All of these surface indicators would surely

Most Popular Internal Hard Drives on Amazon

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Internal Hard Drives A hard disk drive (hard disk, hard drive, HDD) is a non-volatile storage device for digital data. It features one or more rotating rigid platters on a motor-driven spindle within a metal case. Data is encoded magnetically by read/write heads that float on a cushion of air above the platters.

How to recover deleted pictures from memory card

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How to recover deleted pictures from memory card

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Everybody has a digital camera now days. More and more people are using digital cameras to record the wonderful moments. But it seems the digital pictures are easier to get lost than traditional film camera because it has a useful but "dangerous" delete button or feature. A mistake operation may delete one or all the pictures instantly. Do you think the valuable pictures were lost permanently. NO! You may use some easy way to recover them in most cases.

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