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| Did you know that factory Quick Restore or System Restore CD's will only take your system back to the way it was the day you purchased it? You will loose all your internet settings, addresses, desktop settings, and all your saved files. Our RestoreIT service takes a digital picture of your entire hard drive, and puts it on to CD's*. We will also help you set up a backup program to assure that any important files created after the RestoreIT CD's, will not be lost. Should a hard drive crash, or virus cause the need to restore your system. Simply insert the bootable CD or boot disk, power cycle your PC, and follow the onscreen instructions to completely restore your system settings, software, and files at the time of CD creation. Then run the backup program to restore any additional files. |
* 4 CD's included with package, approximately 3GB of data. Additional CD's ( if needed ) $5.00 ea.
** 1st CD is bootable. As some older systems do not support bootable CD's, a boot diskette is also included to enable your CD-Rom drive should your system not boot correctly from the CD-Rom.
*** 1/2 hour time included, additional time at regular onsite rates.
| Hard Drive
A hard disk is part of a unit, often called a "disk drive," "hard drive," or "hard disk drive," that stores and provides relatively quick access to large amounts of data on an electromagnetically charged surface or set of surfaces. Today's computers typically come with a hard disk that contains several billion bytes (gigabytes) of storage. A hard disk is really a set of stacked "disks," each of which, like phonograph records, has data recorded electromagnetically in concentric circles or "tracks" on the disk. A "head" (something like a phonograph arm but in a relatively fixed position) records (writes) or reads the information on the tracks. Two heads, one on each side of a disk, read or write the data as the disk spins. Each read or write operation requires that data be located, which is an operation called a "seek." (Data already in a disk cache, however, will be located more quickly.) A hard disk/drive unit comes with a set rotation speed varying from 4500 to 7200 rpm. Disk access time is measured in milliseconds. Although the physical location can be identified with cylinder, track, and sector locations, these are actually mapped to a logical block address (LBA) that works with the larger address range on today's hard disks.
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| Partition In personal computers, a partition is a logical division of a hard disk created so that you can have different operating system on the same hard disk or to create the appearance of having separate hard drives for file management, multiple users, or other purposes. A partition is created when you format the hard disk. Typically, a one-partition hard disk is labeled the "C:" drive ("A:" and "B:" are typically reserved for diskette drives). A two-partition hard drive would typically contain "C:" and "D:" drives. (CD-ROM drives typically are assigned the last letter in whatever sequence of letters have been used as a result of hard disk formatting, or typically with a two-partition, the "E:" drive.) When you boot an operating system into your computer, a critical part of the process is to give control to the first sector on your hard disk. It includes a partition table that defines how many partitions the hard disk is formatted into, the size of each, and the address where each partition begins. This sector also contains a program that reads in the boot sector for the operating system and gives it control so that the rest of the operating system can be loaded into random access memory. Boot virus can put the wrong information in the partition sector so that your operating system can't be located. For this reason, you should have a back-up version of your partition sector on a diskette known as a bootable floppy. |
| A gigabyte (pronounced GIG-a-bite with hard G's) is a measure of computer data storage capacity and is "roughly" a billion bytes. A gigabyte is two to the 30th power, or 1,073,741,824 in decimal notation.
To check the amount of data stored on your hard disk. Double click on the My Computer Icon. on Win98 click on the C: Drive icon, and look at the pie chart on the left side of the window. The Bytes used is the amount of data stored. Win95, right click on the C: Drive icon and select "properties" from the dropdown menu. Also see gigabit, megabyte, terabyte, and exabyte.
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| Scandisk
ScanDisk is a Windows utility used to check your hard disk for errors and to correct problems that are found. These errors often occur when Windows locks up and must be restarted. To run ScanDisk in Windows 95 and NT, click the Start button, select Programs, then Accessories, then System Tools, and then Scandisk. It is recommended that you run ScanDisk at least once per month. In OSR2 (a later release of Windows 95) and in Windows 98, ScanDisk is initiated for you automatically following system restarts in which shutdown was not complete.
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| Defrag
With the use of your files and programs over time, they tend to move location on your hard disk. Sometimes the individual clusters that make up a single file can become separated (fragmented). With increased fragmentation comes weaker performance of your computer, because it takes longer for your processor to access a single file. The longer and harder your processor must work the shorter the life of your computer.
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