Last week my 500 Gb Lacie HDD just went belly up with some nasty errors, smack in the middle of some DVD productions that I was working on. I was ready to swing the NTFS brute it out of the window by its USB2.0 lead. It wasnt working hard to break my patience and windows system .. just opening any folder on this HDD with a corrupt file would crash ( Read more... )

A fascinating idea that was passed onto me by my technician Mike.

If you have a digital video camera, you can use the Firestreamer-DV software on your computer to make your digital video recorder appear as a regular tape drive to other Windows applications. Files and folders can be backed up and restored using existing tape backup software. A ( Read more... )