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How To Upgrade Your MacBook Hard Drive – Part 3

Posted on 01. Aug, 2009 by Douglas Reynolds.

Last time, I completed detailing the steps needed to clone a disk image to an external drive using SuperDuper.  The process was quite seamless and very simple, SuperDuper did a great job and stands up to its name.  We ended up doing some general comparisons between the old and new drive and are now ready to remove the new drive from the external enclosure, remove the old drive from a MacBook, and install the new drive in its place.  We’ll then boot up with the new drive to see how it went.

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Take Control of Your Drives with Drive Manager

Posted on 05. Nov, 2008 by Kyle Judkins.

If you have a vast home network or lots of external and internal hard drives and optical drives, it can sometimes get hard to manage all of those drives.  Drive Manager is a light weight application that helps you manage all of your drives in a better way.

Drive Manager shows just about every stat and characteristic about all of your drives.  The biggest benefit of Drive Manager is that fact that it places all of the normal Windows features for drives in one place.  It is that reason that makes Drive Manager a good tool to manager all of your drives.  In addition to the tools, Drive Manager is very light weight and doesn’t need to install any files.  This is because it runs directly from an exe file.

Features

• % Free column.
• Hard disk serial number
• CD ROM Doors open + close.
• Lock / Unlock CD ROM / DVD drives.
• Not mounted drives listed in grey with disks not inserted.
• Time and date.
• Map / Disconnect network drives.
• Hide / Unhide drives from explorer.
• See drives which are hidden.
• Drive properties dialog on right click.
• Create / Remove a substitute drive letter for a local folder.
• Hidden drives displayed in blue.
• Launch Windows Search
• Drives with less than 5% available are displayed in red.
• Vendor details: Vendor Name, Product Id, Revision, Vendor Spec

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How to Map a Network Drive or Folder

Posted on 12. May, 2008 by Kyle Judkins.

In my previous article, How to Share a Folder Over a Network, I showed the basics of sharing over a network. In this article, I’m going to show you how to map that shared network drive or folder for easier access.

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