How To Fix & OR CLEAN AND REUSE YOUR OLD HARD DRIVES!
Question? Do you have hard drive chaos in your house or
business? Well today is your lucky day
if you’re someone like me and you have a lot of good drives left over from your
old PCs, laptops, ECT. You have a chance to turn them from useless unknowns to
working usable drives for storing life's data, music, videos anything! All you
need is the right disk enclosure & some free software which can be easily
obtained from Cnet's download.com website called (EASEUS Partition Master 9.1.0
Home Edition) or you can use windows format utility program. First for the
enclosure make sure what type of drive you have either a 2.5inch or a 3.5inch
drive plus check if it’s a sata or ata drive then shop away! The best sites for cheap but good priced
hard drive enclosures are NewEgg.com & Tigerdirect.com; Tigerdirect has a
lot of the same popular drives as NewEgg.com sometimes more of the corporate
type enclosures for the technology advanced. As for NewEgg.com you can get very
decent priced great quality drives with most of the time free shipping, you
can't beat that.
Ok got the enclosure that you want now go ahead and install
on your PC or laptop the software or if you have chosen to use the Windows
format utility go with that, now let's put that hdd you have chosen into the
enclosure, attach it to the enclosure's cable, next screw up the sides or
bottom with the provided hdd mount screws, then enclose that enclosure with its
hard shell, next any screws or clips to close it up screw in now, done... Now plug in with its provided cables and or
power cable to the pc . Windows should recognize that a drive is connected to
it when powered up, if not go to the my computer part and select refresh or
search new devices, when Windows finds the device and the HDD still has data on
it and you want it gone go to (EASEUS Partition Master 9.1.0 Home Edition) and
start it up and select the new drive then select format or erase to clean
everything off the drive you can do a more deep format for a more secure clean
NOTE: this will take a longer time. If you choose the Windows format utility
select format quick or full format & the type of format me personally I
would keep the NTFS format for larger drives or for a small drive FAT or FAT 32
is the way 2 go. But still choose NTFS for a safe clean format that will keep
your drive working for a long time. Congratulations Now you have a working
external drive on the cheap to take with you any where you go! For a more added maintenance perspective for
your drive use a defragmentation program called smart defrag which can be
downloaded for free from download.com and search by name this program will help
to keep lots of files organized on your drive and use if knowing Microsoft's
disk check utility for added protection.
One last thing for major paranoid people wanting total drive
working conditions use a Paid program called SpinRite from www.grc.com or
Google spinrite it’s a $89.00 program but worth every penny all professionals
use this disk utility in their PC shops!
For more uses for drives like USB Drives I have ideas below;
Here are six cool things you
can do with your USB flash drive, in our series roundup of "What to do
with your USB flash drive." Each item is linked with step-by-step
instructions.
Have you ever wanted to try
Linux but were too afraid? Linux Live media allows you to boot to and run the
entire OS from the CD/DVD, or in our case, a USB flash drive. This is a great
way to give Linux a try without actually altering your system.
Windows computers can be
maintained easily with a variety of tools, right from your USB flash drive.
With a program called Parted Magic, you can partition your drives, reset your
Windows password, clone your hard disk, and more. Parted Magic is essentially Linux
Live, with a ton of useful utilities included.
Yes--transporting files and
documents with a USB flash drive is cool. Losing your USB flash drive is not so
cool. We show you how to encrypt your entire USB flash drive to keep curious
eyes from accessing your files.
Installing operating systems
with an optical disc is so 2005. Besides, your shiny new portable Netbook or
laptop may not even have an optical drive. In just a few short steps, you can
create a USB Windows 7
installation drive.
We all love our tablets and smartphones, but a USB
flash drive can run apps, too. Just pop it into a host computer and run Firefox with all your bookmarks, edit
documents with OpenOffice, play games, and more.
Did a virus or Trojan take
your computer down? Run a rescue CD from your USB flash drive to get it back up
and running. Give out rescue USB flash drives to all your relatives who
undoubtedly have you on speed dial for tech support.
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Posted By: Mr. Mike
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