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...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 25, 2022
Every couple days my Linux Mint desktop computer has hard drive problems where I can’t write files to the drive. Or it freezes in mid-use. Sometimes it won’t start Linux and I have to run it in recovery mode and then I run the manual file check utility on...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 9, 2022
One of the things I do in computer maintenance for Microsoft Windows is check if your hard drive is on a optimize schedule. Optimizing can speed up Windows by putting all the parts of a file in a continuous location. In this way the read head of the hard drive...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 2, 2022
One of the things that can slow down a Microsoft Windows computer is hard drive fragmentation. This is where parts of a file are spread all over the drive and not in one contiguous piece. If you you have a sold-state drive, they don’t need...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 9, 2020
This weekend a family member had scanned many family photos and they wanted me to have a copy of all the pictures. I brought over my external 750GB hard drive and connected it to my laptop first to clean it up. It wasn’t recognized by my apple laptop and I knew...
