The last notebook that I bought, an Acer 3810T, does not come with an optical drive. This has ramifications, especially when installing new operating systems but also when an optical drive is needed, for instance to burn a DVD or repair disc. While it is possible to use external CD, DVD or Blu-Ray drives for [...]
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How To Use 3TB Hard Drives On Windows XP
All hard drive manufacturers have announced the first wave of 3TB (that’s 3 Terabytes) hard drives in the first half of 2010, and first 3TB hard drives like the Western Digital Caviar Green WD30EZRSDTL 3TB are now available. These high capacity hard drives will work fine for users running Windows Vista, Windows 7 or a [...]
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Intel Data Migration Software
I have reviewed the data migration software Paragon Migrate OS To SSD just a few days ago. The software allows a user to migrate from one hard drive to a solid state drive even if the storage space of the SSD is less than the storage space on the source hard drive. It is still [...]
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Paragon Migrate OS to SSD [Early Adopter]
Solid State Drives are becoming increasingly popular, with prices slowly dropping and capacities increasing. It will take another few years before these new storage devices will replace conventional hard drives on most computer systems. Still, some early adopters cannot resist the temptation and buy SSDs, despite their price tag and relatively low storage capacities. Sometimes, [...]
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Paragon Drive Backup – Download Paragon Backup Software
Data backups should play an important part in a computer user’s schedule. Backups ensure that data is not lost if it gets deleted, overwritten or edited. This can be accidental or because of hardware failures or virus attacks. Backups can even ensure that data is still there if a computer gets stolen if the backup [...]
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Free Paragon Software Special Editions
It has been a while since we last covered free downloads of commercial software programs. This time it is a collection of software programs from Paragon Software. The programs are so called special editions which have a few limitations. Among them a limitation for private usage only, no upgrade possibilities to newer versions and no [...]
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O&O DiskImage 3 Express Edition
O&O DiskImage 3 Express is a backup software that backs up all hard drives that are connected to the computer with the press of a button. That is by far the main selling point of O&O DiskImage 3 Express Edition. The backup program is basic and intends to be that way, supposedly for the user’s [...]
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Free Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8.0 Special Edition
I usually use a hard disk manager to partition a new drive that I bought. I did so after building my new computer. It’s not really necessary anymore these days but I personally prefer different partitions for a better overview. The Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8.0 Special Edition can partition hard drives but provides other [...]
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Free Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8
Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8 is a sophisticated hard disk partitioning tool for Windows. You can use it to create, merge and edit partitions on your hard drive but also to backup data for instance. Hard Disks can have several partitions that are then accessible through independent drive letters. My first Samsung hard drive with a capacity of 160 Gigabytes is divided into two partitions with the drive letters C and E for instance.
