Here’s a tip for those of you out there with solid state drives in your computers. If you’re looking to reinstall Windows at some stage (particularly with Windows 8 nearing its release) then you might want to consider a little bit of spring cleaning before starting afresh. Now, you might think that by formatting a …
Category: Storage
Aug 10 2012
Insider Guru Blog – Blu-ray Recorders
Time to share another article of mine on the Panasonic Australia blog. As is customary, I’ve updated the Insider Guru Blogs page with my fourth article for the Panasonic Australia blog – it been a little while between drinks but needless to say things have been rather busy! On this occasion, I have focussed on Blu-ray recorders and …
Jul 07 2012
Hard Drives with Bad Sectors Living on Borrowed Time
This might seem fairly obvious for those of us in the know but something I thought was worth spelling out for everybody. A lot of us are used to the concept of reinstall or repairing software when something happens to it as a result of a bad shutdown, loss of power or something else. It …
May 13 2012
Hacking a Burner’s Firmware
Following on from yesterday’s post I briefly outlined a problem that I was having with my LG GGW-H20L Super-Multi Blu-ray drive burning to a Shintaro single layer BD-R (Blu-ray disc recordable). In a nutshell, it seemed that my burner did not know how to handle the Shintaro BD-R discs when it came to burning so I …
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