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A Computer Backup Is Essential To Save Files

July 31st, 2010 No comments

I am sure you’ve had this happen to you, you are attempting to start your computer system, and low and behold your Windows will not start up. It is basically sitting there jammed. You find yourself needing to reformat your hard drive and then reinstall all of your programs and options. A lot of headache it is, and also very upsetting and frustrating, as you probably lost a lot of necessary documents, software and photos. Don’t say that you never heard of a computer backup, we all know we should do it, even so, the majority of us just assume that a total hard drive crash or unpleasant Trojan virus could not happen to us.

We are highly recommending that you set up a computer backup drive without delay and set a schedule at least one time a week to do a data backup. For those who don’t know, a computer backup is just when you make copies of the files and save them on another drive, cd-rw, DVD-R, online backup service, etc.

Although you may not lose all of your data during a crash, a lot of your files might end up corrupt. Not having a data backup, these files would be totally lost. By chance you did indeed lose several valuable files or documents, and if you had a backup, you can just go to your hard drive backup and restore the files.

Here are our recommendations to preserve your data and files and photos that happen to be important to you. We advise that you purchase an external hard drive, which you can connect directly to your USB port. Or you can consider using an online data backup service.

You will want to set up your computer backup to run automatically a minumum of one time a week. Be sure you set this up on a night or time when you will make sure to leave your pc on. This is easily set by starting your “Control Panel” and then clicking on the “Backup and Restore” tab. Continue with the prompts in the wizard to get your automatic hard drive backup prepared to run automatically.

This is usually a quick and easy setup, one that is not overly costly, and one we suggest to everyone. Nobody wants to lose everything due to a hard drive failure, corrupt files or computer crash. Many programs can just be reinstalled, on the other hand, you can’t generally replace necessary documents or family photos unless you have done a full computer backup. Keep in mind, a crash can and most likely sooner or later will happen to you, be sure to be safeguarded.

Don’t let a computer crash steal your valuable photos or files – create a full hard drive backup today. You can get more information and find more in depth tutorials on doing a full computer backup at the website of Computer Too Slow.

ISO

February 28th, 2010 No comments

Since the internet immemorial, we have been smacked silly with a lot of file formats that come and go. Formats that make it easier for file transmission without compromising the data integrity when it arrives into the intended target’s PC. We have heard of file zipping to compress and protect the files but this will only work for files that are able to be compressed. There are large files that no matter how much you compress, it will still remain large. These are usually CD content files. When you are rushing, you just have little choice but to rush delivering large files over the net.

Converting files into the .iso format is one of the best things to do when sending large files over the internet. Files are converted into a single large file. Though it is a large file, it is easily more transmitted the internet. Those large files can be stored in a singular iso file, making it easy for extraction and identification as well.

This is a special file that cannot be opened just as easily. We call the iso file as a “cd” file. This cd file is like a cd within your hard drive. What you need next is an internal cd reader, called an iso reader. It’s not a hardware though, but a software. A lot of these iso readers are available for download in the internet. There are free versions and then there are licensed and commercially distributed too.

What happens then is when you put these files in the reader called “mounting” which is just the same as having placed the cd inside a reader. Now, even if you don’t have the actual files, it’s like having the original CD along. A CD that is scratch resistant, break proof and wear-proof. It makes a good back up for your files.

A lot of people now prefer using ISO files for back up, storage and transmission. It not only stores your files efficiently, but also reads them without fail. The time it takes to burn files into a CD is quite inconvenient, and it’s not a guarantee that it can be easily read as well by conventional cd readers.

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