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Cloning a hard drive is almost always the fastest and easiest way to migrate from one disk to another. There are several great programs out there that will do just that, the only problem is they're not free. Norton Ghost, Acronis MigrateEasy, and Partition Magic all have the required functionality to do this, but so does any bootable linux or *BSD distribution. Follow these easy steps and you'll be up and running in no time and still have a little cash left in your pocket.

Step One: Initial Configuration

Every day, people flock to Geek Squad in Best Buy looking for help with their computer problems. Here are the top 10 fixes that they are offered by their under paid, under trained staff.

This was really damn funny today.

This was a tech support live chat session for getting a hard disk drive replaced under warranty.

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Could you please verify the company information the system would be registered to, as well as provide the current ship to address for the parts or service?

Apple has been around for a long time trying their little hearts out to sell products and, for most of their history, they have been unsuccessful. Granted they sold a few computers, but they were far from successful. Until the realease of the most popular music player ever to hit the consumer market...a little thing known as the iPod. Since it's release, Apple has sold more than 50 million iPod units. What am I getting at? This is the preface to the iPod adventure I embarked upon earlier today.

My sister has a 2GB iPod nano. Today she called me and asked me if I would come over and help her get some songs onto it because it was acting up. When I got there, it was not behaving normally and itunes was not recognizing it when I plugged it in. The computer was not the normal computer that she usually connects to, so I downloaded the iPod software and commenced an iPod update. While updating the iPod, the computer crashed and hilarity ensued.