The other day I was working on a Windows 10 laptop when it started acting erratically and then crashed. One moment I was working as usual and then suddenly I was presented with the nice picture below indicating Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. Instinctively the first question I asked myself […]
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Windows Low Disk Space – Easy Drive Cloning With Macrium Reflect
Recently I had a family laptop that was low on hard drive space and was periodically causing “operational” issues. Family members would be using the computer and then get the Windows Low disk space message and simply closing the notification wasn’t enough. Naturally being the official tech person in our family I would get an […]
sabrent, Windows 10How to Securely Erase Hard Drives
Recently I found a few old 2.5” laptop hard drives in storage and figured I would try sell them for a few bucks on Ebay but first I wanted to make sure my personal data on them was erased. As an experienced sys admin I am already in the habit of formatting an old PC […]
Secure Erase, Security, vmware, Windows 10Easy USB Drive Mirroring With Windows 10 Storage Spaces
Speaking from experience having a computer hard drive fail is not when you want to discover your backup software didn’t run overnight and you’ve lost some important data. Laptops or a space a saving All-in-One desktop like my Dell XPS 2720 typically only have one hard drive. Hard drive redundancy aka RAID (Redundant Array of […]
