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Storage Questions
1. What should I do if my hard drive is going bad?
2. How do I copy my primary hard drive to a new hard drive?
3. What does "internal storage" mean?
4. What is a C drive?
5. How long does it take to complete a 7-pass erase on a hard disk?
6. What is the difference between "recover" and "restore?"
7. Can I use my internal hard drive as an external hard drive?
8. Will adding more RAM give my computer more free space?
9. Can I transfer a program like Print Shop that is on many CDs to a single DVD?
10. What is the difference between a USB hard drive and a USB flash drive?
11. How can I free up space on my hard disk?
12. How do I open files from a USB flash drive?
13. How can I make sure everything is deleted off my hard drive before I sell my computer?
14. How do I know if the blank CDs & DVDs I buy are rewritable?
15. Is it possible to recover files off a disk that has been reformatted or initialized?
16. What does it mean to reformat a hard drive?
17. What is a lost cluster?
18. What does it mean to defragment a hard disk?
19. Are Zip disks more reliable than 3.5" diskettes (floppy disks)?
20. Why does my hard drive make a lot of noise?
21. Why does my hard drive spit and shutter so much even after I defragmented it?
22. What would I want to partition my hard drive?
23. Can I still start my computer if my hard drive fails?
24. Why won't my new IDE hard drive work after I just installed it?
25. What is the difference between a double density (DD) diskette, and a high density (HD) diskette?
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