PC Disaster and Recovery
Chapter 1: PC Disasters and Recovery Overview
- A Cautionary Tale: When the IRS Comes Knocking
Chapter 2: How Your Hardware, Operating System, and Applications Work Together
- About Hardware Resources
- Checking Against Your Own PC
Chapter 3: Prevention: Limiting Your Risk
- In the Not So Distant Past
- That Age-Old Debate: PC Cover On or Off?
- “It’s a Virus, I Tell You!”
- Installing Backup for Windows XP
Chapter 4: Assembling Your PC Recovery Resource Kit
- Take Advantage of Sales
- A Cautionary Tale: Step Away from the Power Source
Chapter 5: Drafting Your Disaster Recovery Plan
- A Cautionary Tale: Backing Up Before an Impending Storm
- Choosing a Drive Image/Backup Package
Chapter 6: Transforming Yourself into a Smart Troubleshooter: Detecting, Analyzing, and Diagnosing
- A Cautionary Tale: Trying Everything Under the Sun
Chapter 7: Restarting a Problem PC
- A Cautionary Tale: Before You Head to the Junk Yard
Chapter 8: When Upgrades Go Wrong
- A Cautionary Tale: Leader of the Pack?
- A Cautionary Tale: Watch the Help You Get
Chapter 9: Stabilizing Your Operating System
- The Quest for a Well-Running PC
- A Cautionary Tale: Updated Into Oblivion
- One More Before We Go
Chapter 10: Understanding and Troubleshooting Hardware Failures
- A Cautionary Tale: There’s Hot, and Then There’s HOT!
- A Cautionary Tale: In the If-it-Ain’t-Broken, Fix-it-Until-it-is Department
Chapter 11: Avoiding Power and Overheating Problems
- A Cautionary Tale: Building a Healthy Respect Based on Intense Pain
- Buying Refurbished Equipment
- A Cautionary Tale: The Brewing Storm in the Basement
Chapter 12: PC Performance: Diagnosing, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting
- A Cautionary Tale: Getting Up to Speed with Upgrading Computers
- “Mine is Bigger (or Better) than Yours”
Chapter 13: Recovering Lost or Damaged Files and Applications
- A Cautionary Tale: Open and Look
- Work-Arounds Don’t Always Work
- A Cautionary Tale: When “Borrowing” Software Can Bite
Chapter 14: Disaster and Recovery Essentials for Your Small Network
- Your Networking Setup Options
- A Cautionary Tale: Don’t Let Me Scare You
- A Cautionary Tale: Don’t Assume
Chapter 15: Finding Help Online
- Information You Should Not Give Out
- A Cautionary Tale: Choose Your Helper Wisely
- A Cautionary Tale: Don’t Make Them Drag the Info from You
Chapter 16: Starting from Scratch the Smart Way
- A Cautionary Tale: Don’t Be Hit by Formatter’s Remorse
- A Cautionary Tale: The “Fun” Doesn’t Always Stop Here
Chapter 17: Resurrecting a Dead Hard Drive
- Immediate Safety Concerns
- A Cautionary Tale: Why a Good Swift Kick or Slap Probably Isn’t Going to Help
- A Cautionary Tale: Consider This
- A Cautionary Tale: Don’t Assume You Have Protection
Chapter 18: Knowing When to Call the Professionals
- A Cautionary Tale: Keep a Copy
- Unhappy Realities of Warranty Exercising
- A Cautionary Tale: “I Waited Forever on Hold, and Then They Rushed Me Off the Line”
- A Cautionary Tale: The Blame Game