Often when a computer boots to a black screen with a white cursor it means your hard drive has too many errors to boot properly. Your hard drive is just too error-stricken to get its act together. You’ll need to help it. If your computer does this and you have an XP Windows machine, you [...]

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Here’s an entertaining animation about perpendicular recording on hard drives. It’s from Hitachi’s Global Storage Technology about Hitachi’s new hard drive technology. http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html And click here to see the Lab Rats video on perpendicular hard drives. You have to download it in the different media types such as Quicktime and Real Player below the short [...]

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I found a great site with all sorts of information about viruses and antiviruses called Virus.gr. The website is from Greece and among many other valuable resources has free virus scans and comparative tests that rank antivirus programs. Click here for a link to the free virus scans and programs. According to Virus. gr, the [...]

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Ms. Ducktoes did it! I beat the dreaded Virut without reformatting. This is how I did it. The Dr. Web Cureit Live CD I spoke of in the last post didn’t work. At the beginning of the scan, it stopped everytime. So instead: I created an Ultimate Boot CD for Windows. I downloaded the image [...]

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