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External Hard Drive Backup

Aaron J Berg — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:06:38 +0000

You have an older version of a simpletech external harddrive. It has recently stopped working. It turns on and you can hear it connect to your computer, however, you cannot use it to back up you files, nor can you access anything that’s on it through windows explorer.

Is it dead, you ask? Or [...]

Essential WD

Aaron J Berg — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:53:07 +0000

Why your computer does not recognize Western Digital passport essential hard drive? Connect your external hard drive to your computer. You need to partition and format your external hard drive.

A how to install, partition, and format a WD drive on Windows Vista article from Western Digital support has some steps required. Click on [...]

Windows Data Transfer

Aaron J Berg — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:13:07 +0000

You have a computer running Windows XP. You want to transfer all the files to an external drive to allow an upgrade to Windows 7. This machine won’t connect anymore to the network with the one other machine and won’t go online and it will not recognize either a thumb drive nor the [...]

Quicken Restore

Aaron J Berg — Fri, 28 May 2010 09:22:57 +0000

You backed up your quicken 2000 on Windows 98SE and tried to restore it to new Quicken 2010 Deluxe on Windows XP. Quicken 2005 was on the XP computor and you removed the software. 2010 shows QDATA BACKUP-1.1.06QDF.

An ERROR message appears saying Authentication of convert-stub.dll failed because it could not find required file. [...]

Arcsoft TotalMedia

Aaron J Berg — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:38:14 +0000

Are you having problems verifying your ArcSoft Total Media backups? When you try to confirm that the backup is successful by opening these files on your backup device, you may get a message that Windows is unable to open the NBP files. With ArcSoft total media backup, you can’t just view the backed [...]

Data Corrupted

Aaron J Berg — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:54:08 +0000

Are you receiving a Windows program error message “Has encountered a problem and needs to close”, whenever you try to open up a specific file in a specific Windows folder? I think what you are experiencing is being caused by a corrupt image file in your specific Windows folder. The crash is occurring [...]

Transfer Tunes

Aaron J Berg — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:10:00 +0000

Secret to transferring iTunes songs quickly. If your about to reload the operating sytem on your computer, be aware that your Apple iTunes songs may not be playable. This may also be true, if you are just transferring your iTunes songs, from one computer to another.

Apple has a 5 computer authorization limit, on [...]

Online Data Backup Storage

Aaron J Berg — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:16:52 +0000

How to remove all data currently online using Dell Data Safe, and starting over. I don’t think you can just go out to your on line backup and delete the files there. You have to edit your local Dell Data Safe backup settings, and remove any files and or folders you don’t want [...]

Transfer Files Computer

Aaron J Berg — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:38:38 +0000

How to transfer files between two or more computers running Microsoft Windows. Some computer users like to transfer files between two Windows computers using “Files and Settings Transfer Wizard”. This often requires using a direct cable connection between the two computers with a serial cable.

Both computers must have a serial port and transfer [...]