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Dealing With Hard Drive Problems
(How To) Tips to help if your drive bails on you, plus fabulous and weird time wasters.
What's the Best Media for Archiving Important Data?
(How To) Also: Set your default e-mail client, and create virtual drives to improve your access to folders.
Partitioning a Hard Drive in Vista
(Reviews) How to proceed with a PC that has Windows Vista preinstalled.
How to Install a New Hard Drive
(How To) Running out of room? Installing a new Serial ATA disk will end your storage blues, at least temporarily.
Easy, Low-Cost Network Storage for Everyday Use
(How To) Share files on a LAN via a NAS box.
Eight Tips for a Faster Hard Drive
(How To) Defrag your hard drive the right way; remove big, useless files; find duplicates.
External Laptop Storage
(How To) Buying tips for adding to your notebook's on-the-go storage capacity.
Hard-Drive Housekeeping
(howto) Hard-Drive Housekeeping
New Uses for Old Hard Drives
(howto) New Uses for Old Hard Drives
Get More, Spend Less on Your PC Storage Upgrades
(howto) Get More, Spend Less on Your PC Storage Upgrades
Plan Ahead to Keep Your Big Hard Drive Purring
(howto) Plan Ahead to Keep Your Big Hard Drive Purring
Get the Most Out of Your DVD Recorder
(howto) Get the Most Out of Your DVD Recorder
Burning Questions: Instant Reference Guide to Creating DVDs and CDs
(howto) Whether you're archiving data or creating your own movie masterpieces, these tips help you get the most out of burning discs.
Burning Questions: 5 Tips for Safeguarding Your Data
(howto) Ever worry about whether your newly burned disc will be readable years from now? Here's how get the most from your optical media.
Mobile Computing: Get the Most From Flash Memory
(howto) Great uses for this very portable storage option.
Hardware Tips: Get the Hard Drive That's Right for You and Your PC
(howto) Hard drive variables; keyboard, video, and mouse sharing; a fire-breathing FireWire hub; three free PC-test utilities.
Home Office: Want to Copy DVDs? Try These Tools
(howto) Great software, slick tips, and a word from our lawyers.
Answer Line: Wipe Your Drive Clean of All Its Sensitive Data
(howto) Plus, archive Outlook and Outlook Express e-mail; type euro symbols easily in Word.
Digital Focus: Making and Copying Your Own DVD Videos
(howto) How to make and copy your own DVD videos, plus solving weird memory card problems.
Hardware Tips: Divide a Disk to Conquer Slow Performance
(howto) Partition your hard drive to best utilize the space; learn more about your PC through a free utility.

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