by Shane Grantham | Apr 22, 2024
One of my own computers has been getting slow when I access one of the three hard drives in it. It used to respond immediately and recently it lagged many seconds to open files or even locate them. When I was in the same room with it two days ago, I heard the...
by Shane Grantham | Dec 20, 2023
This month I was helping a client with their laptop computer. Their main program was having problems reading data from their 4TB (terabyte) external drive. I feared the drive had a hardware issue or the USB port on the laptop was faulty. Luckily, it wasn’t...
by Shane Grantham | Dec 8, 2023
We all know to do it and some of us never do it. It’s backing up or archiving the files we create. Every once in a while I encounter a computer user who never backs up their files. Maybe they don’t know how and thought they’d never lose a file or a...
by Shane Grantham | Dec 30, 2022
I was on a service call today performing a computer check-up and tune-up. My client’s computer had thousands of files in various folders on their Windows 10 computer. My client hasn’t copied any of these files to a backup device that they could remember....
by Shane Grantham | Aug 28, 2022
I have many clients that only call when they have an emergency or problem. It would be better for them if they had me visit regularly to check out their systems and backup data. One of my long-time business clients called me and explained they were infected. (The...
by Shane Grantham | May 7, 2022
In my IT inventory are many older hard drives- some are IDEs and some are the SATA interface. Many came out of desktop PCs and others from laptops. The ones which can’t be sold or used in computers have been repurposed. I use them for backing up my data on my...
