Showing posts with label hard drive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hard drive. Show all posts

Tuesday, 27 May 2014

Re-enable Missing Hibernate Option in Windows Vista


The most common problem in Windows Vista is the missing "Hibernate" option in startmenu. I get many mails regularly asking the same question: How to enable the hibernate option in Windows Vista?

Actually its a known issue in Vista. The hibernate option automatically disappears whenever you run "Disk Cleanup" wizard. It happens because Disk Cleanup wizard also removes important Hibernate files to free up space on your hard drive. So if you use Hibernate feature, then make sure you always deselect "Hibernattion File Cleaner" option from the list whenever you run Disk Cleanup wizard in future.

Anyway its very easy to re-enable the missing Hibernate option. If you are also not getting the option, you can bring it back by following these simple steps:

1. Click on "Start button -> All Programs -> Accessories". Right-click on "Command Prompt" and select "Run As Administrator". If you are prompted to enter password, enter the password and continue. You can also open Command Prompt in Administrator mode by typing "cmd" in Start Menu Search box and press "Ctrl+Shift+Enter".

2. Now provide any of following commands:
powercfg /hibernate on
powercfg -h on




3. Exit command prompt and Hibernate option should appear in Start Menu.

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Tuesday, 28 January 2014

Save your Important Data



It's not difficult to get self-satisfied with regards to holding information on current apparatuses. They make saving reports, pictures, film and sound so natural that once you hit the "Save" charge, the vast majority of us simply accept the information will dependably be there. In any case any Agent will let you know, we are each of the one spilled container of espresso or dropped portable computer far from a harmed drive and lost information. Goodness beyond any doubt – drives could be carried from the dead. Not every last one of them. What's more it could be an exorbitant procedure. With only somewhat standard support, you can abstain from losing those pictures from your little girl's birthday party and those spreadsheets that are helping you at last understand your monetary circumstance. 

The principal thing I typically propose to customers is to get all your information to one spot. Download the pics and sound from your telephone onto your portable computer. Draw everything from your tablet onto your portable computer. Getting everything in one spot will make moving down the information much more straightforward. 

Notwithstanding comes the genuine going down part. Here are a few connections to assets to help you begin. 

Here's a phenomenal article from PC World magazine about moving down your machine. 

Cloud administrations could be an extraordinary space area for your went down documents. Here's an a blog entry that condenses and demonstrates cloud information space. 

To take a stage back and get a feeling of how computerized space functions, here's a post that connections to an arrangement of articles that gives an exceptional outline of the methodology 

What to go down 

When you can know how you may as well best go down, you must realize what you have to move down. The decision is eventually yours, yet I suggest securing anything you may need or oblige later that you can't re-make: electronic reports (charge stuff, business stuff, any hard duplicates you've filtered and disposed of), masterful manifestations, memorabilia (photographs, motion pictures, your old band recordings), or about anything whose misfortune might bring out compelling negative feelings. Pondering about your downloaded motion pictures, music, and other obtained media? You can dependably download those things again later, however in the event that you're aggressive enough you can back them up also. I don't trouble. Note that If your information is spread over different gadgets, you'll have to merge it. All the more on that later. 

Where to back it up 

This is a simple one. I'm putting it all on the line here and conjecturing that you don't have a tape reinforcement drive. You may not even have an optical drive. When you do, there's nothing the issue with keeping a reinforcement or two on disc, however that is your concern. I think old engineering that backs off the methodology smothers inspiration. 

In the event that your broadband association has enough upstream transfer speed, move down to an online record facilitating administration. Utilizing such an administration is pay-to-play, yet fetches a division of what it expenses to recoup information from a fizzled hard drive. It's likewise absurdly simple you simply set it and overlook it. 

Clearly, numerous individuals don't have sufficient upstream transmission capacity, or an information set little enough to make the online choice feasible as a complete result. All things considered, lessen your reinforcement set (what you select to go down don't uproot the information itself) to the absolute minimum, keep it on the web, and after that move down the rest by regional standards utilizing space drives you connect to your PC or system. 

Step by step instructions to back it up 

Ok, the quick and dirty. Here's the way to move down once you have your reinforcement vault (a hard drive or other mechanism) or administration set up. 

In the first place, select your calamity recuperation and reinforcement programming. Windows 7 and 8 both offer mixed requisitions that can make complete framework recuperation pictures, however in Windows 8 its to some degree stowed away under Control Panel > All Items > Windows 7 File Recovery. Too bad, the restore routine isn't especially powerful, and it can come up short with as straightforward a change in equipment as supplanting your hard drive with a more diminutive robust state drive. Hence, you can at present have the PC mount the framework picture as a virtual hard drive, yet just in the wake of reinstalling the working framework physically. A surer wager is to utilize an unbiased gathering instrument, for example, Acronis True Image or R-Drive Image, that isn't as delicate regarding the matter of restoring to diverse equipment

Once you decide on the software, the basic procedure is as follows:

Run the software.

Select the destination for the system backup. This will be the external drive you purchased as a backup repository, a NAS box, or even a shared location on another PC.

Select the partitions (C:, D:, or the like) that you want to back up. You should select all of them the first time around, excluding the destination drive for the backup. (Most backup software prevents you from selecting the destination partition/drive.)
Run the backup process.
When the process is finished, put the backup media in a safe place (if applicable).
Create your recovery media (CD/DVD/thumb drive).
For backing up just your data, Windows has its own capable backup application, but you can find dozens of backup programs that are easier or more versatile, including notables such as Acronis Backup & Recovery and True Image, Easeus Todo Backup, Genie Timeline Backup, and NovaBackup. If you’re using an online service, the service will provide a backup application. Most of the time it’ll create a local backup on your external hard drive at the same time it backs up online.


After you’ve installed your software, follow these steps:

Run the software.
Select the files and folders you want to back up.
Select the destination for the system backup. This will be the external drive you purchased as a backup repository, a NAS box, a shared location on another PC, and/or your online backup service.
Run the backup process. (Make a full backup of all your data the first time.)
Verify the backup.
When the backup process is finished, put the backup media in a safe place (if applicable).
Repeat as necessary—daily, weekly, or monthly, depending on how often things change and how risk-averse you are.

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Friday, 10 January 2014

Hard drive is making Noise


My personal hard drive is usually generating frightening seems

1st, disconnect the particular PC. Until finally everything is usually preset, you choose that will generate spinning as little as probable. If possible, generally not very.

You'll have to obtain a fresh harddrive, needless to say, along with set it up. Which is the effortless aspect. The particular difficult aspect are going to be retrieving from the particular old generate.

When you have an entire, up-to-date back up, or you use the cloud-based back up support, great job. Your beneficial practices are going to end up being rewarded. The best way very well rewarded is dependent upon which kind of back up you could have.

When you have a picture back up of one's H: generate, it is possible to restore that will towards fresh generate and grow in place along with operating almost immediately. Whatever method you accustomed to create the particular image should have the way to trunk the particular pc along with restore it.

In the event you stored your data files separately, you must restore those people separately, likewise.

Yet exactly what if you have your current paperwork and other data securely stored, nevertheless certainly not troubled for you to copy Microsoft windows itself? (As a lot as i understand, a picture may be the merely dependable solution to copy Microsoft windows. ) In that case, speak to the particular pc maker and pay attention to the best way to restore Microsoft windows towards fresh generate. As soon as that’s done, you’ll ought to restore your current applications.

What if you didn’t copy? When preparing this post, My spouse and i critically considered providing recommendations pertaining to cloning the particular succumbing generate towards fresh one. However the additional My spouse and i contemplated it, greater My spouse and i realized that will for everyone apart from an extremely experienced professional, what a incredibly negative notion. Cloning is mostly pretty uncomplicated, but is not any time you might have certainly not done it prior to along with your generate can kick the bucket with any time.

Alternatively, I would recommend you speak to the information recovery support.

http://backuprunner.com/ - For data backup The particular best-known company

For Drive related and data back up issues you can contact the  tech support

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Monday, 23 December 2013

How to add USB 3.0 to your desktop PC?

Description


Have you just purchased an external drive? Then it came with a USB 3.0 interface for sure. Generally, USB 3.0 devices are backward-compatible with USB 2.0 ports. But, you can’t enjoy good speed. To resolve the issue, you can upgrade your device.



Solution:

For this, you need to have two things:

1. System should have PCI or PCI Express expansion slot.

2. You need to spend $20-30 to an upgrade.

For an upgrade, you have to buy and install a USB 3.0 PCI card that can add four fast ports to your PC. You need to drop the card into an available slot, connect a power cord and install some drivers. Always purchase the card that matches with your slot. So, don’t forget to check the power requirements. You can start your search from Newegg. Take a complete system backup before starting the upgrade process.

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Wednesday, 18 December 2013

Find the right backup drive for your storage needs

Description

There are various important things which you need to store in a secure way. Thus, it is crucial to have backup plan for your PC using an appropriate backup device.

Solution:

There are two options available- Desktop backup drives and Network attached storage
We will discuss here both:


Desktop backup drives


There are several desktop backup drives that use rotational hard drives for which you require an external power supply. Well, these drives are not as fast as solid state drives but they are much more spacious and reasonable. Always look for the hard drive that can store much more than you need. For further protection, you can go for multi-drive device that can support RAID 1. It maintains the exact duplicate backup of your data. Try to use removable drives for backup so that you can keep your data protected offsite. One option for you is Buffalo DriveStation DDR.




In case, you want to backup multiple computers then go for network attached storage or NAS. NAS can range from single units to multiple drive devices. Mostly these devices have USB ports on them but you can’t connect them directly to PC. There are many NAS boxes including QNAP TS-469 Pro that allow you access files saved on the device from anywhere using Internet. But, these are complex to use. You can use Western Digital’s MyCloud drive which has easy to use interface and you can access it from Mac, PCs as well as Android and iOS devices.

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Tuesday, 17 December 2013

When your PC doesn't recognize a 2nd drive

Description


If you find the problem while installing the old drive second time as the PC is not recognizing it then this tutorial is here with the solution.




Solution:

When you unplug the old drive then you must have done something wrong while plugging it back in. There are two connectors of the hard drive i.e. SATA and power. And, both of these should be plugged in properly. In case, the power connector is not connected properly then the drive will not work. If the SATA is not connected properly then the drive will not be visible to the computer.
Thereby, it is important to check the plugs again. After this, boot into your BIOS settings instead of Windows. For this, when you start your PC you can see a message that reads something like "Press key for Settings." Press this key immediately. Now, you can see a full-screen menu and you will find an option so as to control the PC’s boot order or boot priority.
Note: Never put your old drive inside the computer as any Cryptolocker Trojan can destroy those files that are available in your main hard drive as well as on the backup.
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Tuesday, 10 December 2013

How to upgrade or replace your PS4's hard drive?

Description


It is well-known to you that PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are equipped with a 2.5-inch 500 GB hard drive. But, you can replace or upgrade this hard drive in PlayStation 4 only. 

Solution:

Here is the way to do this:

Tools

The hard drive must be of 2.5-inch drive and contain the space of 160GB. Also, you need a USB flash drive with at least 1GB of space, a Phillips-head screwdriver and computer with Internet connection. 




Process

As the console is lying flat, you have to apply pressure to the glossy black cover and slide it down. You will find the screw with old PlayStation shapes. Remove it.



Take the hard drive tray out and remove all the four screws. After this, replace the drive with the new one. Insert the drive back into the system and replace the PlayStation screw. Putting the cover back to its place may be a little tricky. Don’t slide it from the bottom and just put it from the top. 


Update

Go to Sony's site and download the latest software update for the PlayStation 4 from your computer and connect USB flash drive to the computer. Then format it to FAT32. In Windows, you can do this by right-clicking the drive, select Format, choose “FAT32” option from the pull-down menu and click “Start” button.




 After the completion of this, open the drive and create a folder titled “PS4.” Create another folder titled with “UPDATE” inside that folder and place the updated files inside it.




Console

Now, connect the power cord to the back of the console and plug in the HDMI port. Next, connect both the controller and USB flash drive. After this, turn the console on in Safe Mode. This can be done by holding the power button for 7 seconds. On the controller, click the PlayStation button if asked to do so and then scroll down to the “Initialize PS4” option. Then the update file will be copied from your drive to the console and install it by the system. When the installation task gets completed, PlayStation 4 will restart and boot as the first time. You have to create an account, sign in and download your content.


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How to set up an external hard drive for use with OS X?


Description


It is recommended to take some precautionary steps when you are attaching a new external hard drive to your Mac. The most important thing that you need to do is the drive you are using should be preformatted to FAT32 as it is readable and writable in both Windows and OS X systems. But, FAT32 drives always come with Master Boot Record partition scheme so it doesn’t allow OS-supported encryption.



                              




Solution:

In order to format the drive, attach it to your system and open Disk Utility. Now, follow the below steps:

1. First, select the drive device from the list of devices. This item is located above any storage volumes on the drive and given with its manufacturer name, media size, etc.

2. Next, choose the “Partition” tab that appears.

3. From the drop-down menu, select “1 partition.” When you select the new partition, all new partition will be formatted to Mac OS Extended by default. For confirming this, select each partition in the partition diagram and then choose the format for it.

4. Now, click the “Options” button and select “GUID” as the partition scheme.

5. At the end, click “Apply” to the changes.

After this, the disk is ready to use. For further testing of drives, you can use third-party tools like Drive Genius or Tech Tool Pro. Secure Erase is one option of Disk Utility that can be used to test each storage block of a device for lessening the number of problems with the drive.
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Thursday, 5 December 2013

Make room on your Windows partition | Techvedic

Description

Creating a restore point is very important before making space on Windows partition. Here in this tutorial we are suggesting you ways to do the task.

Solution:

In Windows 7, click “Start” or in Windows 8, go to “Search.” After this, type “restore points” and choose “Create a restore point”. Then follow the prompts.

Go to C:'s root directory and search the folder named Windows.old. Now, examine the user folder within Windows.old. If you will find anything appropriate there then move the files to another folder such as Documents. Next is to delete Windows.old.

Open Control Panel's “Programs and Features” applet. Select the programs that you are not using and uninstall them.

Also, you can clean out the temp folder. In this, search for %temp% and you can remove the files that are older than the last time you booted the PC.

At this step, use Windows' disk-cleaning tool through which you can remove old updates. But, by using this you miss the ability of removing an update and return Windows to its former version.

For cleaning, you need to launch the Disk Cleanup tool as an administrator:


Windows 7: Click “Start” and type “cleanmgr.” Right-click “cleanmgr.exe” and select “Run as administrator.”

Windows 8.1: Use the Search Charm to find cleanmgr and choose “cleanmgr switches.” As a result right-click “cleanmgr switches” and select “Run as administrator’ given at the bottom of the screen. 




You get the list of several cleanup options after the program has examined your drive. The best one is called “Previous Windows installation(s).” Check it for sure to remove old updates.
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Friday, 22 November 2013

Recover files from a dead external drive

Description


Your data is your asset. Thereby, it is important to keep it safe. You can’t afford to lose that confidential data. If you are in a habit of keeping files exclusively on an external hard drive then don’t forget to take back up of that data. It is something very pathetic that you have saved your data on an external drive and it gets damaged. Want to recover files from that external drive?? Then this tutorial can help you. 




Solution:

If your drive is making noises then you should send it to a recovery service. If not then the problem may present in your PC. You can try another USB port. In case, it will not work then use another computer. If nothing works then open your external hard drive. You will find an internal drive inside. By opening the enclosure, you can fix the lose connection. Also, you can take that internal drive out and connect it with computer. This can be done either by installing it as a second drive inside a desktop PC or by using SATA-USB adapter or enclosure. 

After applying these tricks, you can send your drive to a data recovery service such as DriveSavers and Ontrack. But, there is no guarantee that you will get those files back.
So, it is much better to take back up of your data. For more from the XpertCrewTM team, please follow us on Twitter @Techvedic or contact Techvedic’s computer support helpdesk, as per below contact-details:
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