HOW TO BACK UP DATA ON YOUR COMPUTER

HOW TO BACK UP DATA ON YOUR COMPUTER

Routinely backing up our important data is something we should all do. Unfortunately, we don't realize this until we're scrambling to recover data on a hard drive that has just gone south. Family photos, MP3s, that spreadsheet you've been doing for work--all gone. You can avoid this traumatic experience by using the backup utility that comes with Windows. This article outlines a few simple techniques you can use to make sure your computer data is safe.

Storage locations
Get a CD burner and occasionally drag and drop your files onto a disk using the software that came with the device (Usually something like Roxio Easy CD Creator or Nero). A flaw in this technique is that you will inevitably forget to do this, and before you realize it, it's been a year since your last backup.If you're determined to use this method, we suggest weekly backups as well as monthly backups, where you physically remove the backed up data from your home or office and store it at another location. A house fire or other disaster could destroy both your PC and your backup sitting beside it on the desk. So you'll increase your odds if you keep a monthly copy in a safe deposit box, at work, or at a family member's home.

Windows Backup
Windows has a backup program ready to go on your system. Navigate to START, PROGRAMS, ACCESSORIES, then SYSTEM TOOLS and you'll find the backup utility. While older versions of this utility will differ slightly from XP Professional's, you'll be able to follow the Wizard when backing up.You can backup the entire system, which isn't a great idea. Windows and other programs can be reinstalled. So you're probably better off keeping your data in a centralized location, such as your My Documents folder. You can add folders within that directory by opening My Documents and right-clicking an empty space. Name the new folders whatever you want and organize your data. Then use the Windows backup utility to create a backup of your data. Put this file on another hard drive, burn it to disk, or copy it over to another computer on your network.Also, take a moment to schedule backups. The Windows backup utility will give you a chance to schedule backups automatically. This is normally located under the advanced tab at the end of the backup process. Take a moment to set this up.

Use online storage
If you're having a problem with finding media to backup to, take advantage of free Yahoo Mail, Google Gmail accounts and other free email providers. You can get up to 2 Gigabytes of storage space on these accounts. What does this mean? You can email yourself attachments containing data. So you essentially have an invisible hard drive Out There on the Internet. This is great for temporary or redundant storage, but do not rely on it for the long term.

External disk
Another way to back up your document is to get an external hard disk and always back up to this disk at least once every week.

Finally ,

No matter how you backup, make sure you never rely on a single source. Rotate your backups out of the home, Email them to yourself or place them on a separate partition on your hard drive. Take advantage of the backup utility in Windows and use the scheduler feature to automate things. Be proactive with your data, and you will be better off when your system fails....and it will fail eventually.

WHEN COMPUTER REFUSES TO BOOT: WHAT TO DO

WHEN COMPUTER REFUSES TO BOOT: WHAT TO DO

At times it do happen that your computer may fail to turn on or boot to desktop even when it was properly shut down the last time it was used. This may turn out very frustrating. However, there are some effective ways to manage this problem whenever it rears its head. They are as follows.

WHEN COMPUTER DOES NOT POWER ON

1. Check the AC current if it is up to the normal AC rating in your country. Over here in Nigeria, check if the AC current is up to 230-240 Volts because that is the normal current in Nigeria. If that is the case, then that means it can power the computer.2. Check the power pack: If your power pack smells burnt, it means the power pack is blown. Some power pack has a switch that can switch to either 110 volts or 230 Volts. If that is how your power pack is, then switch it to your country’s current rating.
Make sure the computer is correctly connected before powering it. If the computer does not come up, do the following:

WHEN COMPUTER DOES NOT BOOT

If your computer refuses to boot to desktop, but restarts in each attempt,
1. Check the ram: before you proceed, disconnect the power cable form source. Open the computer system unit. If your computer has two ram slots, remove the ram and wipe it with a clean soft cloth. Insert the ram back in the other slot. Connect the power cord and power the computer. If it still does not come up,2. Check the CMOS battery: With a tester, test the battery voltage to see the voltage. If it reads lower that 2.5 volts then it may be the cmos battery. Change the cmos battery. Next, ensure that the cmos jumper cap is in pin 1 and 2. Then power the computer. If it still does not come up,

3. Isolate system component: This means that you have to isolate the entire system component and reinstall them one after the other. Finally,

4. Check Processor: Uninstall the cooling fan and heat sink, insert the processor without the cooling fan and heat sink, them connect other component and power the computer. Place your hand on the processor to know if the processor is hot or cold if its cold that means the processor is bad, and vice versa. If the processor has gone bad, then the only option will be to replace it!

GOOD LUCK!

HOW TO RECOVER DATA FROM A SYSTEM

HOW TO RECOVER YOUR DATA WHEN YOUR SYSTEM FAILS

A lot of times we have been victims of data lose in one way or the other. Hard disk failure is an inevitable problem associated with computers. And through this, lots of important documents and data are lost, often leading to huge loss to companies and individual businesses alike. As such, it is therefore very important to know what to do when such happens.
When your computer suddenly refuses to boot or turn on, the following are some simple steps to take to retrieve your files, which can save you a reasonable amount of money.

1. Get an External Case
Once your computer refuses to boot, the most reliable means of retrieving your data is to get a Hard disk external case that you can connect to another computer using a USB cable. This method gives you access to your files before calling a pro.

2. Use a LiveCD
If you do not have a second computer to do the above method, using LiveCD will be ideal. You’ll need to get temporary access to a computer with Internet and a DVD burner. Download a Linux LiveCD, Small Linux is the smallest, but also has issues mounting hard drives. The most simple for an average computer user would be Puppy Linux. It has a larger file size, but should recognize your drive. Burn the Live CD ISO to a CD and insert it into your computer (the one with the crashed hard drive). Restart the computer and when it the computer logo appears, press F2 (or whatever key for your system) to enter BIOS. Change the boot sequence to CD first, Save and then Exit.
The Live CD will start, simply follow the directions on the screen. The OS will start, and you should see your hard drive mounted on the desktop–something like “60GB”, etc. Plug in a second drive and copy and paste the folders over.

3. Data Recovery Software
If the two options above sound confusing, you can get a data recovery software for a few bucks. Personally, I used EASY RECOVERY, and it was very effective. I got the software for a reasonable amount, and I have not regretted because it has proved its worth. In fact, the software can even recover windows applications and registry files intact. The software can even be used to repair Microsoft office documents. You really need to give a try to this software if you chose to recover your lost files.

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4. Call a Professional: If you fell is very difficult for you, simply take your hard drive a professional that will be able to retrieve your document, it may be costly but it’s worth it except the files are not very important.

NYSC ORIENTATION CAMP: BASIC REQUIREMENTS

NYSC ORIENTATION CAMP: BASIC REQUIREMENTS

While preparing and shopping for NYSC camp, there are some basic things to take into consideration. Some people, usually end up going with the wrong items; items that will turn out to be useless at the orientation camp. This is usually due to misinformation or total lack of it. Thank God you are privy to this information as you will be enlightened on some aspects that you were oblivious of. So, while shopping around for items to go along with, please, take note of the following, as they will always save you from some not unusual embarrassing situations.

THE DONT’S

First of all, let’s see the don’ts
- Do not go with heavy luggage. Minimize the number of items you go with for easy transportation because on the first day it is always difficult to locate the camp. You will definitely not be comfortable with trailing a big luggage behind you as you jump on one okada or the other trying to locate the camp.
- Do not worry about going with muftis. During your stay in camp for three weeks, you will not be allowed to put on any kind of clothing EXCEPT the NYSC kits that will be supplied to you. You will not be allowed to put on any shirt whatsoever, likewise, you will not be allowed to put on any other shoe, other than the JUNGLE BOOT or the white canvas shoes that will be supplied to you.
- Do not go with your laptop. Avoid going to camp with a laptop or any other expensive and large electronic gadget for security reason. You can go back home later to carry it to your place of primary assignment.
- Do not bother going to camp with buckets or jerry can. These will only add to the bulk of your luggage. You can always buy these at the mami market. These ones will not be sold at too exorbitant a price.

THE DOS

- First, if you don't know much about the state you are posted to, start asking people for info about the place. Such information will be of great value to you.
- Make sure you travel as early as possible, so as to be on the safer side.
- Travel with a light luggage, like a traveling back, one you can easily strap over your shoulders. You can go back home to get your other luggage later to your place of primary assignment.
- Just abide by the camp rules, to avoid embarrassing situations, and you will definitely enjoy your stay on camp.There are many fun activities on camp and am sure you will find them interesting. So, just get involved fully. You might not know, they may be of advantage during posting to places of primary assignment. Such activities include parade, sports, drama, broadcasting services, Mr Macho, Beauty Contest etc.

BASIC CAMP AMMENITIES

Below are the basic items a prospective corper should consider acquiring.

1. Extra white shorts (two pairs): Make sure you go with two extra pairs of white shorts. However, you will be supplied two pairs of white shorts along with other items in the NYSC KIT. But, anything can happen: you may discover that the shorts you are supplied with do not fit you well – maybe too large or too small for you; they may get torn even while putting them on, especially if you are the type with well endowed butts. All these are based on experiences had by others who have been in the shoe before.

2. Extra white T-shirts: To serve as alternatives for those that will be supplied to you on camp. After the parades and drills, these would have turned even whiter…

3. Extra white canvas shoes: To serve as alternatives for those that will be supplied to you on camp. Also, it will save you the time of having to wash the ones you will be supplied with everyday.

4. Cutleries: It is better to go with these, though this may be sold in the MAMI MARKET.

5. Waist bag: Buy this before leaving, or be prepared to buy it at an exorbitant price from the MAMI MARKET on camp. This will surely come in handy during parades, exercises and even during the endurance trek. Go with a big one that can even contain a bottle of water.

6. Food flask: NEVER FORGET to go along with this. The importance of this, you will agree with me, can never be underestimated. You will attest to this when you reach camp. However, you can also get this from the mami market on camp. Just make sure you have one.

7. If you have a digital camera, you can also take it along with you because you will definitely have lots of scenes to shoot and record. Your camera phone will also do the work for sure; just get a large memory card handy.

8. Don't forget to carry your MOSQUITO NET along with you if you have one.

9. Also, do not fail to go along with some good cash. Your first allowee will be paid to you on camp, mostly during the last week of the orientation exercise. You do not need to wait for this. You will also be paid your bicycle allowance. But, don’t fail to go along with some good cash.

10. Have a pen and paper: Series of organizations and individuals will come to lecture you on diverse topics, hence try and get an exercise book handy too because you might need to write some stuffs down during such lectures.

REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS

On getting to the Orientation camp, the first thing that you will have to do is to get registered. This is very essential for you to be admitted into the camp. During the registration exercise, you are expected to provide the following:

* Your Final Year Student ID card

* The Notification Of Result from your higher Institution (ORIGINAL and photocopies)

* Passport Photographs (You might not need more than 4 copies but its better when you have many copies with you)

* NYSC Call Up letter (ORIGINAL with photocopies)

During the registration exercise, you will be given some documents, which you will have to fill, attach your passport photographs and submit to the necessary officers. If you don't have your final year ID card, Notification of result and call up letter with you, don't be surprised if you are sent back home. So, get them handy. Go with enough photocopies because it may happen that photocopy machines may net be available on camp at the time of registration. It will not make sense to spend N200.00 on motorcycle transportation for N50 worth of photocopies. Once you complete your registration, you will be issued your STATE CODE, which will be your unique code all through your service year. With this code, you will then go ahead to claim your mattress and your NYSC kits. You will then be directed to your hostel where you will stay all through the Orientation exercise. Once you locate your hostel, the bunks might be labeled, in that case, find your bunk and get settled.

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GOODBYE

You and I will meet again When we're least expecting it One day in some far off place I will recognize your faceI won't say goodbye my friend For you and I will meet again~Tom Petty

Goodbyes are not forever.Goodbyes are not the end.They simply mean I'll miss youUntil we meet again!~Author Unknown

May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand. ~Irish Blessing

Gone - flitted away,
Taken the stars from the night and the sun
From the day!
Gone, and a cloud in my heart.~Alfred Tennyson
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. ~William Cowper

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. ~Henry David Thoreau

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. ~Carol Sobieski and Thomas Meehan, Annie

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell. ~Jean Paul Richter

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell. ~Emily Dickinson, "Parting"

We only part to meet again. ~John Gay


The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning. ~Ivy Baker Priest

Excuse me, then! you know my heart;
But dearest friends, alas! must part.~John Gay

To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment. ~George Lansdowne

Happy trails to you, until we meet again. Some trails are happy ones,Others are blue.It's the way you ride the trail that counts,Here's a happy one for you.~Dale Evans

Can miles truly separate you from friends.... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? ~Richard Bach

What shall I do with all the days and hours
That must be counted ere I see thy face?
How shall I charm the interval that lowers
Between this time and that sweet time of grace?~Frances Anne Kemble

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. ~Robert Southey

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch. ~Garrison Keillor

Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is. ~William Cowper

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. ~George Eliot

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen

Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. ~William Shakespeare

So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.~William Shenstone

She went her unremembering way,She went and left in meThe pang of all the partings gone,And partings yet to be.~Francis Thompson

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. ~Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

But fate ordains that dearest friends must part. ~Edward Young

Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of which it has been said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible. ~Henry Fielding

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave. ~A.A. Milne

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. ~Alcibiades

Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again. ~Elizabeth Bowen

Farewell, my sister, fare thee well. The elements be kind to thee, and makeThy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well.~William Shakespeare

Fare thee well! and if for ever,
Still for ever, fare thee well.~Lord Byron

One kind kiss before we part, Drop a tear, and bid adieu; Though we sever, my fond heart Till we meet shall pant for you.~Robert Dodsley

Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave. ~William Shakespeare

Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.~Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. ~Washington Irving

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. ~Gilda Radner

Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been -A sound which makes us linger; - yet - farewell!~Lord Byron

Goodbye, goodbye, I hate the word. Solitude has long since turned brown and withered, sitting bitter in my mouth and heavy in my veins. ~R.M. Grenon

Farewell! For in that word - that fatal word - howe'er We promise - hope - believe - there breathes despair.~Lord Byron

Let's not unman each other - part at once;All farewells should be sudden, when forever, Else they make an eternity of moments, And clog the last sad sands of life with tears.~Lord Byron

A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you may; will it be in the same way? With the same sympathies? With the same sentiments? Will the souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? Rarely, rarely! ~Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life. ~Jean Paul Richter

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. ~Theodor Seuss Geisel, attributed

BLESSINGS

A sunbeam to warm you,A moonbeam to charm you,A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you.~Irish Blessing

May the sun shine, all day long,everything go right, and nothing wrong.May those you love bring love back to you,and may all the wishes you wish come true!~Irish Blessing

May you get to Heaven a half hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb

May you live all the days of your life. ~Irish blessing, also attributed to Jonathan Swift

May the devil chase you every day of your life and never catch you. ~Irish Toast

May God grant you many years to live, For sure He must be knowing
The earth has angels all too fewAnd Heaven is overflowing.~Irish Blessing

May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it. ~Irish Blessing

May those that love us, love us.
And those that don't love us,
May God turn their hearts.
And if He doesn't turn their hearts,
May He turn their ankles
So we will know them by their limping.~Irish Blessing

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions. ~Joey Adams

May you always have walls for the winds,
a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire,
laughter to cheer you, those you love near you,
and all your heart might desire.~Irish Blessing

May you always have work for your hands to do.
May your pockets hold always a coin or two.
May the sun shine bright on your windowpane.
May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you.
And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.~Irish Blessing

May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light, May good luck pursue you each morning and night.~Irish Blessing

May you live as long as you want, And never want as long as you live.~Irish Blessing

May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day. May songbirds serenade you every step along the way. May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue. And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.~Irish Blessing

Let all thy joys be as the month of May, And all thy days be as a marriage day.~Francis Quarles

Here's to a long life and a merry one
A quick death and an easy one
A pretty girl and an honest one
A cold beer and another one! ~Author Unknown

Here's a sigh to those who love me,And a smile to those who hate;And, whatever sky's above me,Here's a heart for every fate.~George Gordon, Lord Byron, "To Thomas Moore"

May brooks and trees and singing hillsJoin in the chorus too,
And every gentle wind that blows
Send happiness to you.~Irish Blessing

May your thoughts be as glad as the shamrocks
May your heart be as light as a song
May each day bring you bright
Happy hours that stay with you all the year long.~Irish Blessing

May you have warm words on a cool evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door. ~Irish Toast

May you live to be a hundred years with one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown

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