86) What is the best protection for data on a hard drive?
A) Backups B) Drive redundancy C) Controller redundancy D) Press the data to a CD

87) What computer component is most suspect if a Himem error appears?
A) CPU B) Motherboard C) Hard Drive D) RAM

88) What command can be used sometimes to repair the Master Boot Record in Windows 9x?
A) SCANDISK B) FORMAT C) FDISK /MBR D) DEFRAG

89) Which of the following describes clusters of a file that are not in consecutive order?
A) Decoding B) Demand paging C) Fragmentation D) Lost cluster

90) Which Windows 9x utility recovers lost clusters?
A) DEFRAG B) CHKDSK C) CLUSFIX D) SCANDISK

If you can answer any of these, it would help
Well I’ve tried googling answers for them, but not entirely sure whether they’re right or not. I need 100% right answers cuz the exact same questions are on a test =[

heres what i got:
86) A
87) C
88) C
89) C
90) D

Hi, I want to buy a security camera system (indoor) with about 4-8 cameras. This will be installed in my office, however I want all of the video uploaded on a hard drive at home (is that possible). My criteria is listed below…

4-8 Cameras
Wired or Wireless, doesn’t make a huge difference.
Secure remote viewing over the web
Two hard drives, one at my office downloading the video and another at my house downloading the video over the web.

Thanks

My Toshiba satellite L20 laptop stopped working (it’s dead). I want to try to get the data off the hard drive- have tried attaching it to another computer using a S-ATA/IDE cable: it seems to be "turning" and it assigns it a drive letter but the bar that tells you how full it is is red (while the bars for my other drives are blue). The directories seem to be there but the files inside them seem to have disappeared or have become inaccessible (could this be a security problem?). Anyone got any good ideas/can point me in the right direction? Is all lost?

All the best

Ewan
I’ll do my best to answer nikkai, though i’m not massively clever with computery stuff: the drive is connected by serial ATA-USB2
the adapter is this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/IOMAX-SATA-Adapter-Power-Drive/dp/B001A5SK56
I guess it is set as a slave. I haven’t explored the drive (do you mean actually mechanically opened it or just hunted through the files?)

Okay, I have three programs that were installed on my laptop without my knowledge or consent and I would like them gone. All three are those fake anti-virus protection scams. One is called Anti-malware Doctor. The second is called Security Suite.

One doesn’t seem to even claim a name. I can not get rid of them through the control panel, in safe mode or otherwise. As you probably know, system restore is not possible in safe mode. In regular start-up, one or all three of these programs is blocking system restore. If I attempt to open it it is closed instantly.

I will not wipe my hard drive, I have very important information on it that I need saved.

The way I see it, I have three options. Fix it, don’t use it, use it anyway.

Not using it would inconvenience me. I need my own functioning computer for school and work. Using it anyway will eventually have undesirable consequences, I am sure, and with all the fucking windows popping up it is an entirely unpleasant experience. Fixing it would be optimal.

So, how do I remove these harmful programs and keep everything else?

Thank you so much.
Ran the malwarebyte in safe mode, found stuff, deleted it, it said restart, did (not in safe mode) problems persisted. Ran mwb again in safe mode, found stuff (only three that time) deleted it, it said restart, did (not in safe mode) problems persisted. Running it for a third time, so far has not resolved my issues.
the third time it found two things, deleted them, did not tell me to restart, remained in safe mode. I am now running it for a fourth time, and I intend to continue to do so until it finds nothing upon finishing a scan. After that, if problems still persist, I will try the task manager thing someone suggested.

However, even if that works, I will still have two out of three to get rid of. :/

Thanks for all of the suggestions, I will just keep moving down the list with trial and error until one catches them all. Got to the point where mwb in safe mode found nothing. Problems still persist, no improvement whatsoever. Tried the task manager thing. Right clicked on security suite, when to process, there was no option to locate file. Wtf now?

1. Is it bad to format one’s hard drive often?
2. Does it harm the disk in any way?
3. How often do you format your hard drive?
4. What data to backup before formatting?
5. Any specific methods/shortcuts of formatting?

hello, i have an hp computer with a recovery partition, i do have a lot of staff that i need but i do not have discs, flash drives to backup my data, can i create a new partition on my hard drive and then to paste all my data to the new partition created and then perform a system recovery? If yes, after recovery will i have that partition or the recovery option restore’s the hard drive to the factory settings too?

I am looking for a single-camera, wireless security camera that will continuously transfer 1 week of video to a hidden hard drive. This transfer has to be wireless so he cannot find the hidden hard drive/memory card.

If anyone knows of any such system, please let me know. My practice space has been broken into for the second time in a year, and a 0 amp was stolen this time. I will not live in fear. I want the kid doing this locked up.

I was wondering what Kind of components or wires I need in order to extract the memory from a security camera Hard Drive.

I want to try backing up some files to Mini-DV tapes, but I’m not convinced of its reliability. Would a hard drive be more reliable, stored away after backup?
I am not talking about mini-DVD, rather Mini-DV video tapes - the ones found in most consumer video cameras. I know there is software to backup data over firewire to a tape, but I don’t know if I should trust it for a length of time.

What does G-Data Backup do? Is it the same as Backup and Restore in Windows? And if all it does is backup your files, where does it do this? On a CD/DVD? Or on the same hard drive as where they are? Or is it some kind of special folder protected by G-Data where the backed-up files are stored? Please help me, I’m kind of confused with this thing, and I don’t want to accidentally kill my computer. (I’m saying that because I’m have a pretty fast HP gaming laptop, and G-Data almost destroyed my computer a few seconds ago. It uses SO MUCH memory that I had to quit like 20 processes in Task Manager before I could even type something. In fact, I totaled up all of its processes up in Task Manager, G-Data alone uses over 120,000 K!!!)

I have a video file that I transferred from my surveillance DVR to my hard drive, but it is this weird .vse format that no program under the sun can recognize, except this weird little player that came bundled with the DVR. I need to be able to edit and distribute this video, so I need to convert it into a format that editing software and mainstream players can recognize, but I no program can even convert it. Any suggestions? I am running Windows Vista. Thanks!

Upon restarting my computer, it did a check disk and started a process called "replacing security id with default security id on file xxxx. This went on for a while and when the desktop finally appeared, it was pretty much non functional. Windows restore doesn’t work either. I’ve looked on the internet for some help, but can’t find any real solutions for this problem. Anyone here know one that doesn’t include reformatting the hard drive? I don’t want to lose my data. thanks.

I have a Western Digital 160 GB, 7200 RPM, 2 MB cache, OEM.
In the last 3 months, I discovered that it have around 8 GB of bad sector (by running chkdsk command). Right now I’m still using it, and there error happen so far. I have asked some technican, they said since my hard drive is having bad sector, sooner or later, It will die unexpectedly in the near future, and strongly suggested me to backup the data as soon as possible. However, after I run the WD Diagnostic software, the result said that my hard drive is "clean of error".

So with this condition, how long my hard drive will last?

Addtitional questions:
+ How to use hard drive safely?
+ What is specific symptom (beside bad sector) showing that it will be fail in nearly future?
I set this hard drive as slave on my computer, and use only for personal data storage (doesn’t contain windows installation files or program files.) Will Set this drive as slave extend my hard drive’s remaining life expectancy?

How can i format my hard drive to use it on a Mac without clearing it first?

I dont have enough space to backup the data on my hard drive as i have about 350gb of stuff on it, but it wont work on my mac as it is formatted to windows.

So i need to reformat it for my mac, without cleaning it. How!?

Thanks
Nic

I was trying to block my brother from entering my Data hard drive in my computer, so I tried to go to the security settings and block it. I denied everything and went to his user account to see if it was blocked, and it was. But when I went to my account, and yes I am the administrator, I tried to access my files but it says access denied. I dont get it! I am the administrator! So now even I cant access my files.

What do I do so I can unblock it for me? It doesnt matter if I unblock it for both of us, I just want to access my files again

Please, I need help
Thanks!

I just got a virus using Mcafee and had reformat my hard drive. I am currently using AVG because it was free should I reinstall Mcafee anyways?

What I am looking for is a backup system that if my hard drive were to fail, all I would have to do is boot from the backup hard drive to be back up in running in hours and not days or weeks and still have all the programs installed and all the data files.
It would vary as it would be needed for Vista and 7.

I read an article that copy machines since 2002 now have hard drives that back up every single document that was scanned. While reading this, I wondered why would the manufacturer put a hard drive in there in the first place? What is the purpose of backing up scanned documents in a hard drive? To me, this is just rediculous because any thief can retrieve data from copy machines.
My question was, why would manufacturers put a hard drive in there in the first place? To me, that is just stupid because hard drives only add on to production costs. Wouldn’t it be ideal to use RAM instead of HDD since it’s cheaper?

It seems from a previous question I asked that it is relatively simple to replace the hard drive in my computer. I have a little experience, having replaced power supplies and other internal parts on pc’s. The question is… I obviously don’t have a backup of my personal stuff… pictures, documents, downloaded programs. Is there any hope in retrieving any of this from my fried hard drive? Some software to purchase?
Please help.

How much data will a 512MB (Imation brand) 2.0 flash drive hold? Will my about 300 songs and 250 photos fit? Will I have room to backup software onto it? I have no idea how to backup anything.

Computer store tech tells me to do this as soon as possible as my hard drive has failed the "SMART short self test" as well as extended surface scan tests. I’m advised to return it to the store but to backup everything quickly and turn the computer off as death could occur at any time!!

All help will be greatly appreciated.