by Shane Grantham | Nov 3, 2024
This week I found an email from Gibson Research which is a technology company. They have a hard drive diagnostic and repair program I purchased about 20 years ago. I used it for testing hard drives and sometimes it would repair problems. The email message...
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 24, 2022
On one of my computers I was trying to take snapshots of fitness videos last week and they wouldn’t save. This was on my Linux Mint 20.x desktop computer. No error messages appeared and no photo appeared in the photo folder like it should have. I also tried...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 17, 2022
My wife says I have to have constant stimulation from TVs, radios smartphones and computers. It makes perfect sense that I have a kitchen computer for watching and listening to entertainment while I cook and clean. It’s always an old, repaired laptop usually a...
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...
