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July 13, 2004
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August 16, 2006 |
Spurious "Disk Full" Message From USB Drive False USB drive error is the result of long filenames. |
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February 2, 2005
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July 2002
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December 2004
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Diskology Disk Jockey Hard-drive cloner is a mac consultant's best friend. The Disk Jockey is a compact unit, featuring power and IDE connections for attaching two drives. It also has two FireWire 400 ports and one USB 2.0 port, to connect to your Mac. |
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February 5, 2003
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Dell Drops Floppy Drives in New PCs Future Dimension 8250 desktops will offer floppy drives as an option -- alongside thumb drives. |
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May 2003
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Hardware Tips: Divide a Disk to Conquer Slow Performance Partition your hard drive to best utilize the space; learn more about your PC through a free utility. |
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Perk Up Your PC With Six Quick and Easy Tweaks With spring right around the corner, it's time to give your PC its annual sprucing up. Here are six no-cost, no-hassle tune-up tips to keep your Windows system purring. |
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Discarded Drives Yield Private Data Financial files, love letters, porn, and more found on used PCs resold online or at retail. |
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October 2002
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Data Rescue II Utility rescues data from deleted files or corrupted disks |
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Smart Fixes for Gnarly PC Problems Boot from a USB drive, replace system files, check your RAM, and other remedies. |
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Rubber stamp writes data Scientists from IBM's Almaden research center have found a way to quickly transfer information from a magnetic mask to a magnetic disk. The method promises to make it considerably quicker to format and copy magnetic media in bulk. |
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Jasper Anson |
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LaCie USB Pocket Floppy 4x Portable USB drive gives your floppies one last gasp. |
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