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One of the best things that you can do for your computer is to purchase a surge protector.

This is different than a power strip. While both may offer a single on-off switch and multiple electrical outlets, only the surge protector will prevent your computer from lightning or fluctuations in the electrical current in your home…more

Software programs and data are stored on your computer’s hard drive. The hard drive is a mechanical device that is susceptible to physical damage from jarring or strong magnetic forces.

If the hard drive should fail or if you become the victim of a computer virus, your computer may no longer function correctly.

For some simple tips on what to do go to John’z PC Faqs page…

A.K.A.: Fixed Disk, Hard Disk , Hard Drive

What Is It?

A box about the size of a VHS video cassette (about 1 inch shorter) containing magnetically coated disks. These disks can hold massive amounts of information.

What Does It Do?

Hard drives are used to store your software programs and information created from them. Imagine it being a giant filing cabinet inside of your computer, holding all your information.

The benefits of this, is that you can permanently store all of your software programs such as:

word processors
spreadsheets
Games (yeah!)

Years ago when software programs were relatively small, hard drives were not needed. You could just save everything to floppy disks. But today, software programs take up so much space that you would need 100’s even 1000’s of floppy disks to hold a single program.

Hard drives can store vast amounts of data, are exceptionally fast and become cheaper as technology improves…more