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Comment by Mike Davies on Geekly Update - 09 October 2019 (October 12, 2019 07:23 PM)
Google Photos wants to install itself on my Android phone which I don't want. How do I put it onto just my laptop please?...
Comment by BobD on Securely Erasing Your Hard Drive (October 12, 2019 06:20 PM)
To Herb, 12 March Over-writing might not destroy the old bits. For instance, the new bits might be shifted relative to the old bits. Or the new bits...
Comment by BobD on Here's How to Upgrade or Replace Your Hard Drive (October 12, 2019 05:51 PM)
Yep. When my computer started freezing too often, and chkdsk decided to remap a few clusters on my seven-year-old (!) Hitachi 1 TB disk, I had a loca...
Comment by Lee on Here's How to Upgrade Your Old Computer (October 12, 2019 04:53 PM)
Main reason I have not moved to Windows 10....I have a couple of legacy programs that will NOT be accepted by Win10. I am slowly working to put the i...
Comment by Wayne Lindsay on Here's How to Upgrade or Replace Your Hard Drive (October 12, 2019 09:50 AM)
I have used Norton Ghost for a number of years starting at V.11 up to the last V.15. Unfortunately Norton Ghost is not compatible with Windows 10. I ...
Comment by Wayne Lindsay on Here's How to Upgrade or Replace Your Hard Drive (October 12, 2019 09:50 AM)
I have used Norton Ghost for a number of years starting at V.11 up to the last V.15. Unfortunately Norton Ghost is not compatible with Windows 10. I ...
Comment by Robert A. on Here's How to Upgrade or Replace Your Hard Drive (October 11, 2019 10:54 PM)
I believe that within two or three years, all computers will come from the factory with at least a 250 GB SSD drive, if not a 500 GB drive, for the lo...
Comment by Hill on Deep Web, Dark Web: What's Out There? (October 11, 2019 10:10 PM)
Gerald, the BS you see on the internet is merely a reflection of what's going on in your mind. Why don't you visit Israel and see the truth? It's a de...
Comment by Renaud Olgiati on Here's How to Upgrade or Replace Your Hard Drive (October 11, 2019 06:55 PM)
For added data safety, and if your motherboard has sufficient SATA sockets, consider putting in TWO new HDs, of the same size but if possible from dif...
Comment by John on Here's How to Upgrade or Replace Your Hard Drive (October 11, 2019 06:46 PM)
Another way to clone a disk is fairly simple using the dd command, Just boot to any linux live disk (most utility disks are linux) and run the follow...
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