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Basic computer terms

December 19, 2020December 21, 2020 Tamahere Forum 0 Comments computer repair, Matt Bentley

I’ve noticed a surprising preponderance of folk who don’t know what to name things in a computer.

Here’s a bunch of terms for those who’re on the novice end of the computer-literacy scale.

Your hard drive is spinning rust

May 12, 2018April 29, 2018 Tamahere Forum 0 Comments computer repair, hard drive, Matt Bentley

As I write this on my 10″ laptop, my desktop computer is currently packing a sad.

The hard drive suddenly failed to write a few things to disk, and as it rebooted I saw the all-too-familiar screed of errors indicating imminent failure or data loss.

I immediately stopped and took time to backup my existing data to an external drive before more damage occurred, but it was too late for some of it.