July 22, 2005

Computers: Hard drive failure

Yep I had a HDD failure this week on my main machine. My god what a lot of work that has entailed :(

Luckily I make 2 backups of all my main work on 2 seperate USB drives (yes im paranoid) But it still took me a whole day to install all my stuff onto a new SATA drive. Still I have a nice (much faster) machine now so im happy again and can Blog :)

Mark.

January 11, 2005

Performance

Over the weekend whilst I was back in the UK some friends and I decided to have a lan party, I know I know I'm a child at heart :)

Anyway my brother and also a good friend Martin were both complaining about their computers performance. 'When was the last time you defragged it' I asked "What's that" they both said.

Now these machines are over 2 years old! So I dreaded what I might find. I quickly installed Diskeeper And whilst it was running on both machines I nipped on the net and downloaded Webroots Spysweeper for them both.

To my horror Martins machine was 79% fragged and my brother's not far behind at 68%. I set Diskeeper to clean them up and also to defrag their MFT's too. Diskeeper actually had to run 4 times on each machine to clean them up and then I set about them with Webroot.

Over 3 hours and 1700 traces of adware later they were both very happy with their performace increases :)

The moral is that just like a car you get the best from your PC by Keeping on top of its maintenance.

Mark...