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Ask a Geeky Girl: Destroying Data

A few weeks ago, we talked about what to do when your hard drive dies and you want to save your data. Well, now we’re going to talk about the opposite approach. When you have a working hard drive and you want the data on it gone.

This is something that not a lot […]

Ask a Geeky Girl: How Best to Kill a Computer

Guy Incognito writes:

I hate my work laptop and I want a new one. The IT department says that I’m stuck with this one until it breaks. What can I do to it so they’ll be forced to give me un upgrade? I don’t want to get fired for damaging company property.

Ok, first […]

Ask a Geeky Girl: A Holiday Gift Guide

If I wanted to be lazy, I would just tell you to do all of your holiday shopping for that special geek in your life at Think Geek. You pretty much can’t go wrong with anything you buy there (unless you attempt to buy one of their April Fools’ Day products). But, that seems […]

Ask a Geeky Girl: Backing Up Your Computer(s)

Last week, we talked about what to do if your hard drive dies and you don’t have a recent backup. Today, we’re going to get proactive. How do you protect your data so little things like your hard drive doing the clickity click click of death don’t ruin your day?

As a starting off […]

Ask a Geeky Girl: When a Hard Drive Dies

Amanda writes:

So say, HYPOTHETICALLY speaking, your computer dies (as in, perpetual blue screen of death).  And NATURALLY you hadn’t backed it up.  (I know.  I know.)  And let’s say it had something important and irreplaceable on it (we’ll call it “baby pictures.”)  You take the hard drive out and hook it up to […]