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Difference between Format and Quick Format

When installing new copy of Windows you must have noticed following options:
•    Format the partition by using the NTFS file system (Quick)
•    Format the partition by using the FAT file system (Quick)
•    Format the partition by using the NTFS file system
•    Format the partition by using the FAT file system
•    Leave the current file system [...]

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Delete Data from Disk Permanently with Blank and Secure

There are ways to recover deleted data from the Hard Disk so as to recover any accidentally deleted data but in case you wish to delete data beyond recovery then there are ways to do that as well.

Blank And Secure is a portable tool to securely delete the data. Securely deleting the data is not [...]

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Free Portable Windows Drive Manager

Disk Drive Manager is a utility that enables us to see all the drives connected to the computer either internally or externally, so if you have a habit of taking the drives along wherever you go, this tool is for you.
By default Windows provide us with the utility called Disk Drive Manager to see the [...]

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Repair Bad Sectors on Hard Disk with HDD Regenerator

I have mentioned earlier about removing the bad sectors from the disk but recently one of our readers named Rob, told me about a tool that can repair the bad sectors easily and reliably.

The tool is called HDD Regenerator and the tool is able to detect physical bad sectors on a hard disk drive surface. [...]

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What to do at “Error Performing Inpage Operation”

One of our readers came across this problem that whenever he tried to open a drive there comes an error message that “F:\ is not accessible, Error Performing Inpage Operation”.

Following are the causes of the error message and what to do at this.
Causes:
•    The error message only comes up when you try to access any [...]

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2 Free Hard Disk Data Eraser Tools

If you are thinking to sell your computer or just lend your drive to some other person who can’t be trusted, then you should use this utility to wipe out all the data from the Hard Disk.
Even after you have formatted the drive or deleted the data using Shift Delete, the data still can be [...]

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Computer Hibernation: Should we use it or not?

Lot of people have doubts in their mind about computer Hibernation and are unwilling to use this feature, lets see this in detail and come to conclusion whether we should use it or not.
What is Computer Hibernation?
The Hibernate function in Windows allows us to quickly turn off the computer thereby saving battery in case of [...]

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Eject Removable Drives by Double Clicking in a List of Drives

You have been removing the USB drives by safely removing them first by clicking on the Taskbar. Here is a way to do the same work but in easier and interesting way.

There is a tool called Removable that will create a list of all drives connected in the computer whether externally or internally and can [...]

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Free Hard Drive Ghost Software DriveImage

No doubt Ghosting is a better process than re-installing Windows as it not only saves our precious time but also saves our effort.
Ghost is a process of backing up or creating the Image of Hard Disk so that we can restore the contents of the disk easily to another or the same drive. This comes [...]

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Remove Bad Sectors from Hard Disk

Some days ago my PC got extremely slow and started taking a lot of time to boot. Then I thought to start a chkdsk scan at the next startup and to my surprise I found that there were Bad Sectors in my hard disk.
What are Bad Sectors?
Bad Sectors on the drive is the Physical Damage [...]

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