Glossbrenner, Alfred

Glossbrenner's complete hard disk / Alfred Glossbrenner and Nick Anis - Berkeley, California : Osborne McGraw-Hill, c1990 - xxxiv, 787 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

One. Quick-Start Guide -- Two. Hard Disk Basics -- Three. How and Where to buy a Hard Disk -- Four. Hard Disk installation A to Z and How to Add a Second Drive -- Five. Tracks in the Wilderness: Formatting and Partitioning the Disk -- Six. Setting Up and Loading the Disk -- Seven. Navigating your System with DOS -- Eight. DOS Shells, Menus and Front-Ends -- Nine. Managing and Maintaining your Disk -- Ten. Backup Basics and Software -- Eleven. Backup Hardware -- Twelve. Disaster Prevention and Recovery -- Thirteen. File Recovery -- Fourteen. Security -- Fifteen. Tweaking your System for Maximum Performance -- Sixteen. Network Installations and Novell -- Appendixes.

A guide to selecting, buying, and installing a hard disk; getting a "Quick Start" with hard disks; loading and organizing the disk for maximum efficiency; "tweaking" a hard disk for optimum performance; restoration and recovery techniques; and networking and special formatting procedures. Includes two 5.25-inch disks containing tutorials, software tools, and utilities covering 50 programs for hard disk users.

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HARD DISK MANAGEMENT - HANDBOOKS, MANUALS, ETC

QA 76.9.F5 .H56 1990