DATA CORRUPTION AND BACKUP

DriverPack Solution - is the most popular program to automatically install the drivers. DriverPack Solution greatly facilitates the process of reinstalling Windows on almost any computer. Now you'll be rid of the problems of search and install drivers, reducing them to a few clicks!

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At least TRY a cursory overview, then go back when you think you have a problem.

Great info for those who Can't get back into Windows, but don't wish to lose their data OR programs.

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You're going to get infected -- get used to it.

MS essential tool for hard drive management.

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Understand at least this small piece of your NTFS file system.

Free Magic Partition Solution - EASEUS Partition Master 5.0.1 Home Edition is upgraded to be a free and all-in-one partition solution including three main features: Partition Manager, Partition Recovery Wizard and Disk & Partition Copy to solve all partition problems. It helps extend system partition, copy partition, have better disk space management, do partition recovery to get data back and any other kinds of partition problems!

Toad Data Modeler version 3 helps organizations create, maintain and document their database systems with an easy-to-use graphical interface into new or existing database structures.

Western Digital's come up with a fancy new way to format hard drives-changing sector sizes to 4KB that use a pooled Sync/DAM header and ECC blocks-that promises to give back 7 to 11 percent of hard drive space.

Specifically, Advanced Format is going to bring about some issues where older operating systems (and we're looking almost exclusively at Windows XP here) will inadvertently harm drive performance by making certain assumptions about the drives that will no longer be true.