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How to check the health of your PC’s hard drive

Posted on October 14, 2021

Personal computers are amazing things. They allow us to do things and work in ways that were simply unimaginable just a few short years ago.

But they are also complex machines that run millions of lines of programming code each day while storing our digital lives on hard drive platters that spin thousands of times per minute.

The hard drive is arguably the most important part inside any PC, and unfortunately it is also the most likely part to fail.  [Read more…]

Parted Magic – An awesome bootable CD for testing, partitioning and cloning hard drives

Posted on August 25, 2017

parted-magic-logoYour computer’s hard drive or SSD is one of the most important parts of it.

After all, it stores all of your valuable programs, data files, music and other miscellaneous pieces of your digital life in addition to the operating system itself.

Parted Magic is a powerful suite of Linux-based utilities for testing, partitioning, formatting and cloning your hard drive(s) and/or SSD(s).

Many computer techs (including Yours Truly) use it fairly often for setting up and maintaining the drives in our own machines as well as those of our customers.  [Read more…]




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