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Types of hard drive partitions

What Is A Partition? Partition is a separate “part” of the hard drive resulting from a process called partitioning. Actually when we say “part” we mean some space that is less than 100% of the hard drive capacity. However, this may be a bit confusing because sometimes one partition can occupy the whole available space [...]

How to mount an ISO image

Mounting  ISO images is a convenient way to view the content of a disk image without the need of burning it to a CD/DVD. This will let you install many different types of software on computers without a physical optical drive (like netbooks), but in order to mount an ISO image in your operating system [...]

What are ISO files

An ISO file or also called ISO image is a disc image of an optical CD, DVD or Blu-ray disc, which could be also represented as a single file containing all the files that you can find on a normal optical disc. ISO files are used mainly for archiving information from a physical media, which [...]

Wi-Fi network scanner

Nowadays we can say that wireless networks are one of the most common ways to access the Internet as they are convenient, cheap and easy to build. But despite these advantages, almost everyone who has worked with such networks has encountered some kind of problems related to their configuration. Therefore in this post I will [...]

How to create virtual floppy drive

I guess many of you have heard of programs like “Daemon tools” used to create a virtual cd / dvd drives. With their help you can easily create an optical device that physically doesn’t exist in your computer (e.g. most new laptop computers, especially netbooks come without optical or floppy device installed). Today, however, I [...]