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Creating Rohos Mini Drive Hidden Partition on USB Flash Drive Tutorial + Video

Rohos Mini drive is a Free USB thumb drive password encryption program which creates a hidden virtual password protected partition on your USB flash drive to hide and protect your sensitive files. The partition stays hidden until you connect it to your computer. It uses AES 256 bit key length encryption algorithm. Mini Drive also has an [...]

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Making a USB startup OS install/Live drive in Windows or Linux with UNetBootin

Are you tired of carrying around all those bulky Linux install CDs around?  If  you are, you can use a usb boot live drive maker program called UNetbootinwhich does not require you to install it on your PC, and  it’s is only 4 MB in size to download.  It can automatically download the ISO file you need to create a [...]

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How to prevent file curruption by learning how to safely remove your USB and external devices in Windows.

Learning how to safely remove your drives, MP3 players, video players, and storage devices  from your USB or firewire port is an essential skill to learn in Windows. It prevents your files from being corrupt because they are still open or still writing on your external drives. It only requires a few click of the mouse [...]

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USB devices can cause your PC to hang/freeze during start up/boot sometimes.

I notice sometimes a computer won’t start up when USB printers, drives, or any other USB hardware is plugged in  and turned on, so if your computer suddenly pauses during start up. It is worth it to turn off your printer, external USB drives, Scanners, webcam, tablets, etc. I’m not sure about firewire causing pauses during [...]

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