After having been a computer technician for many years I have used a lot of different data recovery applications.  This week I received a call from a friend in dire need after his laptop fell and hit the concrete floor.  Unfortunately it hit right on the corner where the hard drive was located.  From this [...]

When it comes to computer hardware it can be very difficult to remember just what is what. This can be especially hard on newer computer technicians and those wanting to start repairing computers. And now we have just what they need, a hardware cheat sheet. OS Attack is an operating system blog but this cheat [...]

One of the worst sounds in the world for a computer user is the “Click Of Death”.  For those that don’t know, it is a very metallic clicking sound that comes from a computers hard drive when it is about to meet the grim reaper.  This is a sound that when it happens in a [...]

One of the many applications to be updated with Windows 7 is Defrag. It has continuously gotten more powerful over the years especially with Vista and then the release of Vista SP1. The release of Windows 7 is no different and yet again Defrag is getting some very nice updates.