Although some of us yearn for a time before computers, we live in a digital world. Many of us own computers not for our own benefit, but because our friends, children, and grandchildren insist on using email and digital photographs to communicate with us.
However computers fail. They stop working or get attacked by viruses or even get burned up in a fire. When that happens, many of our memories go with them. Letters from loved ones, pictures of your family, that video of your daughter’s wedding can all be gone in the blink of an eye.
The good news is that all of these treasured items can be saved. When a computer is backed up, a copy of the information is made and stored somewhere else. If the computer is damaged or even completely destroyed, the information remains safe.
Computer Backup Options
In the past, computers were backed up onto tape cassettes. This was an inexpensive and easy way to make many copies of information, but was used mostly by businesses. Tape backups require buying a special tape drive that has to be installed in your computer so aren’t common among non-business computer owners.
Tapes are still used for backup data storage but there are other options. Most computers today come with drives that can write to CDs or DVDs. When this capability was first introduced, it was an expensive and slow process and tape backups were still common. As the technology has improved and the price has come down, this has become one of the most common types of backup.
However, each disk can hold only a small fraction of all the information on your hard drive. A full backup could take a dozen disks and someone has to be available to swap disks as needed. Read more »
So the worst possible scenario has occurred and you cannot access the valuable information on your hard drive or other media storage device. Whether it is due to an electrical shortage, mechanical malfunction, or accidental deletion, the files are gone and days, months, or even years of work are gone. Sometimes, the cost to replace or duplicate these files may cost thousands of hours in time and labor. In the case of photos and pictures, often the files are irreplaceable whether they are family photos, or a special vacation trip. With the advent of the digital age, businesses can also experience data losses that will end up costing hundreds of thousands of dollars if not recovered properly.
There are several steps to take in order to make sure that the drive or storage medium has the highest chance of data recovery:
- Turn off computer or media device, and make sure power is not flowing into the hard drive. Further damage can result if power is applied to the drive, and it is best to reduce any further risk of data loss.
- Do not run the drive or use any diagnostics tools on the hard drive. Data recovery has the best possible chance of success when the drive is completely untouched. Running software on the drive can be helpful, but only in specific situations. Data recovery software on an un-diagnosed hard drive is excessively risky when you do not know the nature of the problem. Read more »
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In a nutshell, computer networking is basically a cluster of computers linked together in a way that it can transmit data and share resources. These sets of connections do not necessitate that the computers bear the same operating systems (OS); it does not even require that similar types of gadgets be used. A perfect example is a personal data assistant (PDA). One may connect a PDA to a laptop over a network. Even kitchen appliances like the internet enabled refrigerator uses networking to activate its surfing functions.
How Is Networking Done?
There are various methods to link computers and other gadgets to a network. And among the plethora of ways and means, the most common networking method is the use of cables. The market provides an assortment of cables from copper-wired to fiber optics each with its advantages and disadvantages.
Copper Wire: Unshielded Twisted Pair Cable (UTP)
The UTP is one of the frequently utilized cables for a local area network (LAN) connection, which Read more »
