Hard Drive Failure - Basic Do's & Don'ts
Is your hard drive making a funny noise? Does it sound like a family of crickets has just moved into your PC? Are you seeing strange system messages when you start up or does your PC just fail to start at all? Odds are, you're hard drive's history! Read on to find what you should and shouldn't do to maximize your chances or recovering your precious data and restoring it safely.
Basic Outlook Express Recovery & Repair
Despite common belief, Microsoft Outlook Express is not simply a "stripped down" version of the more feature rich Microsoft Outlook. The two programs do not share a codebase although their architecture is similar. Unfortunately though, one feature Outlook Express does share with it's more powerful stablemate is the fragility of it's data. As many users know, it's all too easy to accidentally or unknowingly damage or corrupt Outlook Express emails or the data stored in the DBX (.dbx) database.
Data Backup Made Easy
There is no such thing as a crash-free computer and the older your computer's hard drive is the more likely it is to crash. The average person assumes that the crashing of their computer's hard drive also means that they have lost any data that is still on the hard drive. The best way to make sure that all of your important documents and favorite digital photographs aren't lost forever is to make sure that you have backed them up before your hard drive crashes.
A Step by Step Guide to Recovering Deleted Files
You may be familiar with the feeling of dread that occurs when you realise you have lost or deleted important data such as photographs, documents or music from your computer. Sometimes data loss can occur after your computer has crashed, at other times you may have deleted important items accidentally. If you have deleted or lost a file from your computer there is a high probability that you can recover the data if you react quickly and take the appropriate steps.
