What to Do If a Hard Drive Starts Smoking?

If a hard drive starts smoking, making grinding noises and emitting a burning odor, generally, the culprit is the damaged printed control board (PCB). Now, in this case, what can you do? This article will guide you to deal with this situation correctly. As we all know, it is always suggested to take good care of a hard drive in that it’s quite vulnerable due to its sensitive and moving components. Plus, due to the fact that data is stored in the drive platters, once the hard drive fails, all...

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Will Repartitioning a Hard Drive Cause Data Loss?

To optimize the partition arrangement, users can repartition the hard drive. But in this process, many users are afraid that it will cause data loss. In this article, we will tell you the possibility of data loss when repartitioning a hard drive. When you get a brand new hard drive, what you need to do in the first place is to create drive partitions and format them. Then, you could store and manage data on the drive partitions to your liking. It is known that users can benefit a lot from...

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How to Find the Performance Bottleneck when Accessing a MS Access Database over Network

In this article we will look at several possible causes behind a slow performing MS Access database when it is accessed over a network. There are various reasons for a database to be running slowly or performing badly. These databases are not built to function sub-optimally, but somehow, in the long run, they end up giving a poor performance. Some probably reasons for MS Access database to be performing slowly can be one of the following: By default, MS Access has the ability to...

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