Hi Guys,
It’s another beautiful rainy Sunday & thought it about time I write you another newsletter. Not much good for fishing. In this newsletter, I thought I would share with you some simple tips for recovering overwritten files and the basics of caring for your hard drive especially in laptops.
CARE OF LAPTOP HARD DRIVES
In your laptop is a small metal device called a hard drive & this is what stores all your data such as photos, music, documents & everything else. This device is the MOST IMPORTANT piece in your computer as if the rest ever failed, It can be replaced but normally, the data you collect and store on your hard drive cannot be recollected. It is very important you treat your laptop with extreme care while it is on. When the laptop is on, the hard drive is like a record player (showing my age), Instead of a record it has a small disk spinning at 100 miles an hour and instead of a needle, it has a small read/write head. If you bump, knock or hit your laptop while it’s running, the head can scratch the small disk with your data on it & damage it permanently, in other words, it’s buggered so please be very careful with your laptop’s & desktop hard drives while they are on. When they are turned off, the read/write heads are parked & locked in a safe place.
PREVIOUS VERSION
In Windows 7, there is a cool feature called (Previous Version), What this does is allow you to restore a data file such as a Word, Excel, PowerPoint or even an accounting data file back to a previous state in time. Say you were writing a document & saved it a week ago then you opened it today to make changes or add stuff which took ages. You then saved it but not realising you pressed Ctrl A instead of Ctrl S to save & you lost the lot. Don’t panic, From your desktop, go to your My Documents folder (or where ever the file is stored) & find it, Then right click on it & in the menu you will see (Previous Version) Click on it & then you can choose to restore this file to a previous date in time. How cool is that. This restore feature only restores your data files. If you need to do a System Restore, read on....
SYSTEM RESTORE
Windows also has another cool feature called system restore which is used to restore the entire state of Windows back to a previous date in time. This does NOT effect your data files, only Windows. You would use this feature if your Windows had a mental fit as can do from time to time. This will normally NOT fix the effects of viruses unfortunately as this would be an easy fix. To access System Restore, Click on Start / All Programmes / Accessories / System Tools & there you can click on System Restore & follow the wizard.
Notebook update
MSI CX-620
(This replaces the very popular CX-600)
Full keyboard (integrated numeric keypad) and
2-year warranty
MSI CX-620 with Radeon HD4330 1GB dedicated graphics
• Intel® i3 330M 2.13GHz
• 15.6" wide screen, 16:9 ratio (1366x768)
• 4GB DDR3 RAM
• 640GB HDD
• ATi Mobility Radeon HD5470, DDR3 1GB
• DVD+/- RAM Supermulti Writer
• Wireless 802.11 b/g/n + Bluetooth
• Gbit LAN
• Multimedia Card Slot 4 in 1
• Express Card Slot
• WebCam 1.3mp
• 2x USB2 + 1x USB2 / eSATA combo Ports
• VGA (D-Sub out) + HDMI
• Windows 7 Home Premium
• 6 Cell Li-Ion Battery
• Weight 2.48kg
• 2-year RTB warranty
Gilcom’s Introductory price including a nice carry bag
$1349.00 + GST
MS Office 2007 SBE (with 2010 Pro upgrade offer)
$329.00 + GST
It’s another beautiful rainy Sunday & thought it about time I write you another newsletter. Not much good for fishing. In this newsletter, I thought I would share with you some simple tips for recovering overwritten files and the basics of caring for your hard drive especially in laptops.
CARE OF LAPTOP HARD DRIVES
In your laptop is a small metal device called a hard drive & this is what stores all your data such as photos, music, documents & everything else. This device is the MOST IMPORTANT piece in your computer as if the rest ever failed, It can be replaced but normally, the data you collect and store on your hard drive cannot be recollected. It is very important you treat your laptop with extreme care while it is on. When the laptop is on, the hard drive is like a record player (showing my age), Instead of a record it has a small disk spinning at 100 miles an hour and instead of a needle, it has a small read/write head. If you bump, knock or hit your laptop while it’s running, the head can scratch the small disk with your data on it & damage it permanently, in other words, it’s buggered so please be very careful with your laptop’s & desktop hard drives while they are on. When they are turned off, the read/write heads are parked & locked in a safe place.
PREVIOUS VERSION
In Windows 7, there is a cool feature called (Previous Version), What this does is allow you to restore a data file such as a Word, Excel, PowerPoint or even an accounting data file back to a previous state in time. Say you were writing a document & saved it a week ago then you opened it today to make changes or add stuff which took ages. You then saved it but not realising you pressed Ctrl A instead of Ctrl S to save & you lost the lot. Don’t panic, From your desktop, go to your My Documents folder (or where ever the file is stored) & find it, Then right click on it & in the menu you will see (Previous Version) Click on it & then you can choose to restore this file to a previous date in time. How cool is that. This restore feature only restores your data files. If you need to do a System Restore, read on....
SYSTEM RESTORE
Windows also has another cool feature called system restore which is used to restore the entire state of Windows back to a previous date in time. This does NOT effect your data files, only Windows. You would use this feature if your Windows had a mental fit as can do from time to time. This will normally NOT fix the effects of viruses unfortunately as this would be an easy fix. To access System Restore, Click on Start / All Programmes / Accessories / System Tools & there you can click on System Restore & follow the wizard.
Notebook update
MSI CX-620
(This replaces the very popular CX-600)
Full keyboard (integrated numeric keypad) and
2-year warranty
MSI CX-620 with Radeon HD4330 1GB dedicated graphics
• Intel® i3 330M 2.13GHz
• 15.6" wide screen, 16:9 ratio (1366x768)
• 4GB DDR3 RAM
• 640GB HDD
• ATi Mobility Radeon HD5470, DDR3 1GB
• DVD+/- RAM Supermulti Writer
• Wireless 802.11 b/g/n + Bluetooth
• Gbit LAN
• Multimedia Card Slot 4 in 1
• Express Card Slot
• WebCam 1.3mp
• 2x USB2 + 1x USB2 / eSATA combo Ports
• VGA (D-Sub out) + HDMI
• Windows 7 Home Premium
• 6 Cell Li-Ion Battery
• Weight 2.48kg
• 2-year RTB warranty
Gilcom’s Introductory price including a nice carry bag
$1349.00 + GST
MS Office 2007 SBE (with 2010 Pro upgrade offer)
$329.00 + GST
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