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Recover Crashed Hard Disk/Drive in 2 mins

Today, we will help you how to Recover Data from a Crashed Hard Drive . When your PC switch off suddenly due to any hardware failures or software error problems. If you are regular computer user; you may know that a hard drive failure is an unpredictable situation. It happens very often that your hard drive gets crashed and you ultimately lose you precious saved data and files leading to great discontentment and grief. It's really a worst condition when you are working on an important file or data or picture etc and suddenly everything gets blank and Oh God, your hard disk breaks down. And it becomes even more critical when you don't have any backup installed in your computer at all. Though crashing hard drive means total data loss from your computer system but now with the advancements in IT technology, it has become possible to recover your data or file or work when the hard drive stops booting. There are various methods with which you can recover your important data an

How to create folder with name "con", "lpt1", "lpt2", ....,"lpt9", "com1", "com2", ...., "com9", "prn", "nul", etc..

Have you ever tried to create folders with names such as “con”, “prn”, “nul”, “com1″, “com2″, “lpt1″ etc. but failed? Is it impossible to create folders with such names in windows? Well, the answer is NO and YES! NO because, when create a new folder and try to rename it to any one of the above specified names, you know what happens! In Windows XP the folder name automatically changes back to “New Folder” no matter you try to renaming it any number of times. Where as in case of Windows Vista and Windows 7, when you try to rename the file you get an error message saying “The specified device name is invalid”. What is the reason behind this? Simple, these names represent the internal devices of the operating system and hence we cannot create folders with the above names. YES because it is still possible to create these folders using some simple methods as explained below: 1 . Using Command Prompt : Here is a step-by-step procedure to create the “con” folder using the command prompt: 1