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How to label a new hard drive or partition and assign a drive letter?

May 28, 2010

When you have installed a new hard drive, in order for your computer to recognize it you may need to label the drive by assigning a drive letter to it. So for example if you have installed a second hard drive into your computer, it may need to be labeled so it can be used [...]

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Why you should have a USB flash drive

May 27, 2010

What is a USB flash drive: A USB flash drive is a small storage device that can be plugged into your computer via a USB port. Now days all computers have a USB port so you will not have a problem finding one. Your USB flash drive can store files on it and the amount [...]

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Installing a CD or DVD ROM Drive

May 26, 2010

By Mitz Free computer Education Installing a CD or DVD rom drive would have to be the easiest upgrade or repair job you can do on your own computer. Computer Technicians charge you at least fifty dollars an hour when you could probably complete this task in about two minutes. First thing we must do [...]

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How to set Jumper Pin settings on a CD rom or hard drive

May 26, 2010

By Mitz Free computer Education When installing a CD/DVD rom drive or even a hard drive, there are some tiny little pins at the back that sometimes need to be adjusted.  If you do not have the jumper in the correct position, your device will not be recognised by the computer. There are three basic [...]

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