Nov

27

Seagate Drive Kills Macbook Data

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November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Retrodata data recovery firm is reporting a critical manufacturing defect in some revisions of Seagate drives that shipped with Macbooks.  The faulty drives were manufactured in China and contain firmware revision 7.01.  You can find the revision under System Profiler > Serial-ATA.  Apple has been contacted and is investigating the issue.  I bet we are […]

Jan

7

Windows System Restore

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January 7, 2007 | 9 Comments

For some odd reason, it seems that not a lot of people have heard about this feature.  It isn’t heavily advertised, but it can save your tail.  Windows incorporates a files catalog system that keeps track of versions of files.  This allows you to turn back your system to a past time.  This is somewhat […]

Dec

28

USB Flash Drive Letter Problem

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December 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Windows XP has some strange effects on USB flash drives. I had a friend who had been using his USB drive for a long time. Then one day his USB drive wouldn’t appear on his Windows XP desktop. Nothing had changed, as far as he could tell. The computer would see […]

Nov

28

My Hard Drive is Clicking

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November 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Your hard drive is a precision instrument. Not only that, but it’s a precision instrument that is mechanical. That means that there are plenty of ways for it to fail. That is why I harp on backup strategies. And it doesn’t matter whether it’s a personal computer, small business, or corporate […]

Nov

27

Unmountable Boot Volume

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November 27, 2006 | 2 Comments

We all have it happen. We walk into the office on a Monday morning. We grab our coffee and head over to our desk. We sort through the mail and then we noticed that our computer screen is black. It says something about unmountable boot volume. Great, just what you […]