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Once you install Windows 7 on the primary OS drive, you will need to go into Administrative Tools -> Computer Management and select Disk Manager. This should bring up a window to automatically initialize the backup second drive in the computer and create a new partition on it. That's all you...

Running the Active KillDisk will erase the entire drive so it will show as unformatted free space when you go to install Windows. Your most complicated stage is just going to be the actual installation of the OS, drivers, base software, etc. It can take a bit of time to do. What version of...

In a lot of ways yes, if you're wanting absolute security over all of your data, you can just pull out your old hard drive and be done with it. However, there's a lot of times this isn't always an option. A customer just bought several new computers from us, and had previously been renting...

Airocrack has become quite readily available in many different places. One of my employees was discussing with his class how insecure most wireless networks are in our area (our primary ISP in town is terribly infamous for terribly configured routers in dangerously important locations like...

He is right in one concern: Every computer has a unique identifiable number known as the MAC address. In a local network, this MAC address is used to route network packets from one machine to the next. However, the MAC address is ONLY used in a local area connection really. In other words...

I've thought about doing this before in a couple scenarios as well. There are a few things you will need to get. The first is going to be a separate USB keyboard and mouse (if your existing front desk computer doesn't already have a USB keyboard and USB mouse.) Next, you're going to want to...

One thing this kind of brings up in regards to RAID as well is if you are putting together a server/NAS and plan on doing a RAID array, you may plan on just purchasing one additional hard drive than originally intended so you have a hot spare backup in the case of a failure. While you might not...

Right now for me I have a hard time locating the best deals because I use only the highest quality and performance hard drives available, either the Western Digital Caviar Black series for desktops or Western Digitial Raid Edition 4 drives for servers. These are some of the most expensive SATA...

I honestly have not been a fan of all-in-one form factor PCs because simply they are too proprietary and not user serviceable. While yes, the Z1 still has many proprietary parts like motherboard and power supply, adding in user serviceability and more "standard" hardware makes this thing an...

On an imaged-based backup, testing can be done using any spare hard drive really. For instance, when we use the built in Windows Backup and Restore feature in Windows 7 to make full system image backups, we let it backup to a network file share on a scheduled basis and let it do a couple weeks...

One of the biggest issues I've come across in my area talking with businesses about backup solutions is most believe they have something working. I hear, "Oh one of our employees set up a spare hard drive to do the backups." but when I check, there's just an external drive hooked up not doing...

I can tell you first hand that SSDs can fail just like any hard drive, I've had one just completely brick after three years of usage. While SSDs haven't been around near as long as hard drives to have a proven track record as such, reliability of the drives for the past several years has come...

Everywhere that we have had to set up a file server system for customers, we ended up going with a full dedicated file server system mainly because you can run a desktop operating system (linux or windows) which makes it easier for other people, not as technically inclined, to be able to do work...

First off, what kind of computer are you currently using? What operating system, and what email software are you cataloging all your emails with? The most common ones are Microsoft Outlook and on some older computer, Outlook Express. In a round about way, I actually addressed this issue with...

I've tried out a couple different ones. In the end I have just tended towards Team Viewer more perhaps because I have had less issues with it. It was also the first one that I started using though. For most of what I do, though, I just use the built in Windows Remote Desktop utility as its...

The free version, Acrobat Reader X, does not include print to PDF or save to PDF options. You have to pay for the full version of Acrobat Pro to do that. This is where I like CutePDF. Not only is it a nice small simple program (compared to a much larger program like Acrobat Pro) but it is...

If not, you can use several other applications out there, such as CutePDF, to output nearly any program or screen to a PDF file. I've used CutePDF quite a bit, I think it is great to have and it's especially nice that it is free! Just select File -> Print and then select CutePDF as your...

If he was to change the Text Wrap and Layout of the jpg in Word to Text In Front, then yes he should be able to make text boxes in the appropriate area of the menu to enter prices which would display on top of the jpg image background. Definitely not ideal, but doable.

I've been trying to look around for a good, simple, high capacity cloud storage solution that isn't going to cost you more than your house payment per month for use. Could you send me some more information on this service?

Over the past year at our computer office we have noticed an increased number of hard drive failures, our own and customers. As mentioned above, manufacturers recently announced they were going to be dropping the warranty coverage on many of their hard drives because they know they aren't built...