Locate 2 major hard drive manufactures and post your preference on: features, price, warranty, reliability, brand-name recognition etc. Has your hard drive ever crashed? If so, how did you recover? Were you able to resolve the problem yourself or did you take your computer into a shop? Respond to two classmates using positive feedback.
Reviewing the Basics, page 275, questions #13 & #16
13. How much data can a CD hold?
16. Which costs more, a CD-R or a CD-RW disc?
Real Problems, Real Solutions- page 276, Real Problem 6-1 (Recovering Data).
Your friend has a Windows 8 desktop system that contains important data. He frantically calls you to say that when he turns on the computer, the lights on the front panel light up and he can hear the fan spin for a moment and then all goes dead. His most urgent problem is the data on his hard drive, which is not backed up. The data is located in several folders on the drive. What is the quickest and easiest way to solve the most urgent problem, recovering the data? List the major steps in that process.