During your programme at a rehab clinic you will receive various handouts and worksheets designed to help you deal with the underlying issues of your addiction. This will become the 'tool-kit' for your recovery and will contain all the information you'll need to get clean and sober and stay clean and sober.Your 'Recovery Toolkit' will consist of the following:Writing life story.12 completed 'step work' assignments.Various therapeutic handouts,...more
Laptops today have almost replaced computers for many people. They are smaller, lighter and today are available with almost the same amount of space etc as the traditional desktops were. Their smaller size also makes it more complicated to diagnose and repair damages that they may face. Laptops too use a hard disk but the components of this hard disk drive are much smaller than those of a computer. The reason is obviousit has all the components...more
NTFS (New Technology File System) file system allows you to compress or compact files on the hard drive. It is possible through Compact.exe tool in Microsoft Windows. It is a command line utility that come bundled with NTFS file system. As the name states, this tool allows system administrators to compress or compact the files. You can use this command with many parameters to view or modify compression state of the NTFS partitions. But in some situations, you might encounter some errors while compressing the files that might possibly cause data loss on Windows hard drive. In such circumstances, you need to carry out Windows Data Recovery to retrieve lost data from Windows hard drive.This file compression tool does not enable you to compress files on an NTFS file system partition if the allocation unit is more than 4 KB. If you try to compact or compress such partitions, you might following error message, which states that compression is not possible:The file system does not support compressionThe size of allocation unit is defined when you format your NTFS file system partition, so that MS Windows could use it as a smallest amount of hard drive space to allocate to any file....more
After the mini-port drivers, class drivers and SCSI disk are initialized during Windows boot process, the system queries the BIOS for drive translation. The general value returned by most of the SCSI devices is 255 heads and 63 sectors for each track. Windows 2000 uses this value as default when the SCSI adapter BIOS is turned off. Windows NT also...more
Alcoholism is an ever-growing problem in our country that wreaks havoc on families, professional endeavors, and communities where violence and vehicular accidents occur under the influence of alcohol. While I was in high school, two popular boys--twin brothers--were struck head-on by a drunk driver that ran a red light. One of them died and the...more
When you install Windows on a computer system that uses Intel x86-based processor, the chances that its key boot files become corrupted. Windows uses four basic boot files on an Intel x86-based system. These are NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM, BOOT.INI, and NTOSKRNL.EXE. After the boot sector has been located, system loads NTLDR. This NT Loader switches the x86-based processor to 32-bit flat memory mode and examines the BOOT.INI to display the operating system choices. It then loads NTDETECT.COM that builds the hardware list and NTOSKRNL.EXE to start the operating system. Any interrupt while this sequence can render the system unbootable and data inaccessible. However, if Windows utilities fail to correct the system problems, you can install it as new and restore data from the last backup. But if backup fails too, you should opt for commercial Windows Data Recovery products. For example, consider you use an Intel x86-based computer installed with Windows. You try to boot the computer, but fail in your attempts with symptoms, such as a blank screen with a blinking cursor, blue screen error messages etc.CauseOne of the prime reasons for this behavior could be corruption of required boot file(s)...more
In Microsoft Windows NT-based operating systems, Active Directory database is replicated between the domain controllers. The replication is procedure of duplicating the directory and its contents from export server to several import servers. The...more
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is one of the most reliable and popular operating system of Mac OS X series of operating systems. It supports Extended Attributes that were not supported in earlier versions. These Extended Attributes may cause a number of...more
System failures and data loss is nothing new for those using computers or any other form of electronic storage device (iPOD, digital cameras, etc.). The numerous reasons for data loss from such gadgets makes it difficult for one to safe-guard data...more
A normal MS Access database user opens and closes its database file (MDB) various times in a single day. Alterations, such as, updation, addition, and deletion in database files are performed to fulfill all the personal or professional requirements....more
A computer is now one of the most common 'household good'. The hard drive is probably the most sensitive part of the computer. One can call it the 'brain' of the computer. When the computer is shifted from one place to another one needs to be...more
DMS tablespaces and object tables in DB2 database can be corrupted or damaged due to various logical and physical factors. While the logical corruption scenarios can be caused due to improper server shutdown, human errors, and virus attacks, the...more