How to Keep Your Data Secure

Dec 20, 2010 | One Comment

Things happen. Hardware fails without warning. Natural disasters occur every day, wiping out homes and businesses. Data gets lost forever, because someone didn’t think they needed a backup of their information. Life happens. This is why using a product like Acronis True Image 2011 just makes sense. I’ve written about previous iterations of this software, [...]

Losing Everything on Your Computer Would be a Disaster

Mar 24, 2010 | One Comment

When purchasing a hard drive, most people look at the storage available, the speed, the price, and the warranty. The manufacturer’s warranty will be the last thing on your mind if there is a major hard drive failure. To put it in very simple terms, everything on your hard drive could be inaccessible. Everything on [...]

Small Business Security

Feb 3, 2010 | No Comments

Among our readers are those individuals who run small businesses and have the responsibility for many computers. A common complaint that is heard is that it is very time consuming to protect and restore data for all those machines. To make it easier to manage workstations, we are recommending Acronis Backup & Recovery. “Built to [...]

Data Backup Has Never Been This Simple

Jan 22, 2010 | 2 Comments

Experienced computer users harp on this, and we have for years. Do a backup of your data. Do the backups often. It just prevents so many disasters. Think for a minute and consider the dilemma in which you would find yourself if everything on the hard drive was gone. Absolutely everything can be inaccessible if [...]

To Partition or Not to Partition

Dec 3, 2009 | One Comment

When it comes to partitioning your computer, there are really two schools of thought. Some people see no need to partition. The opposite camp views partitioning as a valuable tool for organizing, for security and for overall efficiency. Many of our readers are on the side of partitioning and the following argument will support that [...]

Simple Backups Can Save You Time and Money

Sep 30, 2009 | One Comment

It should be a simple rule that every computer user should follow: back up your data. It is not a matter of “if” your computer will give you problems. It is a matter of “when.” This applies to everyone. Students, for example, should back up regularly. Your whole academic year, with notes, papers, presentation, lecture [...]

Should You Create a Partition?

Jul 15, 2009 | 15 Comments

It is surprising how strongly some people feel about the issue of partitioning or not. Voices are raised – faces become a bit redder – language becomes a bit more colorful. If you are from the school of thought that partitioning is absolutely not necessary, please leave a comment at the bottom of the page. [...]

Protecting Yourself from a Hard Drive Disaster

May 26, 2009 | 3 Comments

This can happen to anyone. Unfortunately, it happened to a long time Lockergnome chatroom visitor, Catherine (aka ‘Noggie’). I’m sure many of you have seen her in the room. Without any warning whatsoever, her healthy hard drive stopped working. Upon reboot, the operating system could not be initiated. Everything was gone. Fortunately, Catherine did have [...]

Back Up Your Data with Special Savings from Acronis

Mar 31, 2009 | 2 Comments

It frightens me how many people do not back up. This is not to scare you (well, maybe you should be scared) but that hard drive will fail. It is just a matter of “when“. At that point, the warranty that you have will mean nothing to you. Why? The first thing that will cause [...]

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Oct 9, 2007 | One Comment

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