Since they are not susceptible to viruses, tape drives are better for long-term storage.
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To recover data from a RAW hard drive the hard drive must be intact in some way. Connect the damaged hard drive as the slave drive and another hard drive that is in working order as the master drive. This should allow for file transfer as long as the RAW drive is not too far damaged.
There is nothing wrong with having another Operating System such as Linux on an external hard drive, but unless you have a fast interface like eSATA instead of USB, you will definitely notice a decrease in performance. It is recommended that you simply dual boot the two Operating Systems by partitioning your hard drive.
Yes it should work in other PCs.
Hard Drive, USB, thumb drive.
a hard drive is called "disque dur" in French.
logical drive
Yes you can have the Mac OS on one drive and Windows on another drive. Or you can partition a single hard drive and have both on the same drive.
You should NEVER unplug your hard drive with your computer still powered on. It will destroy the drive.
Yes, you can add another heard drive to your motherboard and have two.
The main drive is the drive with your operating system on it.
Restoring files on a hard drive can always be done as long as the hard drive itself isn't irrepairably damaged physically. If you are able to replace that hard drive with the hard drive in another computer and boot it up, you should be able to roll back the hard drive to a different restore point where everything was accessable.