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How to check Hard Drive Health (SMART) in Windows

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How to check Hard Drive Health (SMART) in Windows

Your computer’s hard drive is one of its most critical components, storing your operating system, software, files, and data. Monitoring the health of your hard drive is essential to ensure data integrity and prevent unexpected data loss. SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) is a feature built into modern hard drives that provides valuable information…

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System Drive Conversion: MBR to GPT on Windows 10

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System Drive Conversion: MBR to GPT on Windows 10

In this article, we shall discuss System Drive Conversion: MBR to GPT on Windows 10. Upgrading your System Drive from MBR to GPT is crucial for Windows 10 to Windows 11 transition on older hardware with UEFI support. This change ensures proper booting, especially when “Secure Boot State” is Off and “BIOS Mode” is set…

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How to create a BitLocker System Partition [Part 2]

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How to create a BitLocker System Partition [Part 2]

If your device is missing the BitLocker partition, this guide will show you how to create a BitLocker System Partition. Securing your data and operating system is paramount, and the BitLocker System Partition is pivotal in achieving this. BitLocker Drive Encryption secures offline data and OS, preventing drive tampering. Please see What are System Partition…

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DriveLock Components: Important DriveLock components to master

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DriveLock Components: Important DriveLock components to master

In this article, we shall discuss “DriveLock Components: Important DriveLock components to master”. Encryption is another main feature of DriveLock that can help you secure sensitive information by enforcing encryption when data is copied to removable drives. You can use the DriveLock Full Disk Encryption option to encrypt hard disks, including the system partition, and…

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How to uninstall the DriveLock Agent from your device

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How to uninstall the DriveLock Agent from your device

DriveLock offers dynamic, configurable access control for mobile drives (floppy disk drives, CD-ROM drives, USB memory sticks, etc.). DriveLock also lets you control the use of most other device types, such as Bluetooth transmitters, Palm, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, cameras, smartphones, media devices, etc. For some of the articles I have written on Drivelock, please see…

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Fix Access denied to the hard drive, and the security tab missing under properties

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Fix Access denied to the hard drive, and the security tab missing under properties

When your drives, external hard disks, and USB flash drives are infected or suffer from a power failure etc. In most cases the “drive becomes accessible”. and the following error might occur unexpectedly. In this article, we shall discuss the steps to Fix Access denied to the hard drive, and the security tab missing under…

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The server could not be reached or validated: Timeout expired. The Time out expired prior to obtaining a connection from the pool

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The server could not be reached or validated: Timeout expired. The Time out expired prior to obtaining a connection from the pool

In this article, we will discuss the fix to ‘The server could not be reached or validated: Timeout expired. The Time out expired prior to obtaining a connection from the pool”. DriveLock is a security solution designed for endpoint security (data protection). It provides features that help organizations secure their sensitive data, prevent data breaches,…

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How to perform DriveLock quick setup

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How to perform DriveLock quick setup

Encryption is another main feature of DriveLock that can help you secure sensitive information by enforcing encryption when data is copied to removable drives. You can use the DriveLock Full Disk Encryption option to encrypt hard disks, including the system partition, and to perform pre-boot authentication with a single sign-on to Windows. DriveLock can also…

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How to install a standalone DriveLock Encryption software on Windows

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How to install a standalone DriveLock Encryption software on Windows

DriveLock is a lightweight software solution that helps you secure your desktop computers. It has a Multilingual User Interface (MUI), allowing you to select the desired language during installation or when running the program. DriveLock offers dynamic, configurable access control for mobile drives (floppy disk drives, CD-ROM drives, USB memory sticks, etc.). Please see the Concept…

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How to install Standalone Installation DriveLock Encryption software

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How to install Standalone Installation DriveLock Encryption software

DriveLock is a lightweight software solution that helps you secure your desktop computers. It has a Multilingual User Interface (MUI), allowing you to select the desired language during installation or when running the program. DriveLock offers dynamic, configurable access control for mobile drives (floppy disk drives, CD-ROM drives, USB memory sticks, etc.). Please see the Concept…

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How to download and install DriveLock on Windows

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How to download and install DriveLock on Windows

DriveLock helps ensure the success of your business and this depends on how reliably you protect people, businesses, and your services from cyber-attacks and the loss of valuable data. Therefore, DriveLock is your partner for IT security and data security. In this article, we shall discuss how to download and install DriveLock on Windows. Here…

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Why is Data recovery is almost impossible from an overwritten Hard Drive

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Why is Data recovery is almost impossible from an overwritten Hard Drive

Presently, Data loss is inevitable and happens almost all the time. With the Data Recovery Marketplace, data recovery is possible. Not all data recovery solutions out there is possible of recovery lost data, by careful selection and reviews, you should be able to select a suitable product. Note: Recovery of any lost data is only…

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