Just because you have a broken screen or your computer is not turning on, doesn’t mean you have to loose all your precious data such as emails, word documents, PDF’s, photos, music and movies. A lot of the time it is simply not worth repairing your computer. If the costs are too high to repair your computer, we let you… Read more →
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Will My Mac Hard Drive Work On My Windows Computer
This is a very difficult question because it could related and be answered very differently depending on the situation. Such as are we referring to a Apple Mac hard drive working in a computer as the primary drive, or as an external with files on it. Or can we use a hard drive from a Mac computer and change it… Read more →
Why Does Your Hard Drive Fail?
Hard drives failing, including external and the type of hard drive inside your computer can be one of the worst things to happen to your computer or laptop. TOWNSVILLE NERDS WILL GIVE YOU A – SAME DAY – FREE – NO OBLIGATION QUOTE AND DIAGNOSIS Its one thing to have something go wrong with your computer and have to buy… Read more →
Mac Repairs Townsville
Apple has always lead the ways in technology and computing. Although Apple didn’t event the computer, you can thank them for bringing them into your home, small business and pocket (iPhone). As awesome as the Apple technology is (Im a big fan), Apple do try and lock a lot of us out on what hardware can be sourced, and what… Read more →
Facebook Hacked
Just about everyone uses Facebook these days for personal, business or advertising use. Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with people, create and join special interest groups, engage with your customers, send messages and even to read the news and find out what is going on Although a lot of people use Facebook for social reasons and… Read more →
Finding Lost Data and Recovery
Many times I have lost a document or photo, accidentally deleted something or simply moved it without thinking. It happens a lot more than you realise and sometimes data is not missing or needed to be recovered, just simply found on the hard drive. If you know the name of the file you can search for it with in your… Read more →
Been Called From Microsoft Lately
Everyone has heard of Microsoft. It is the biggest software company in the world and everyone has either used a Windows computer at one time or another, used a Word Documents or checked eMail through a program like Microsoft Outlook or Mail. Subconsciously Microsoft being such a big part of our computer and technical life, it seems to lower our defence sand give… Read more →
Mass Copy or Back Up Files
At Townsville Nerds we like to try and find solutions for our customers which are not only cheap, but easy to implement and reliable . One of the biggest problems for home and work users is still being able to copy a lot of files quickly and reliably between devices and for the purpose of backing up. It doesn’t matter… Read more →
Computer is Running Check Disk
Turning your computer on to see it not starting up properly or running a check disk straight away can be a very scary things, specially if you have not backed up your data. Check Disk is a program on the Windows operating system which checks system files and integrity as well as the integrity of the disks surface. If you are getting… Read more →
How a HDD Hard Disk Drive Works
A lot of people can be forging for thinking their whole computer desktop tower or laptop is the hard drive when referring to it. But the actually hard drive, the device responsible for storing files and operating system such as Windows 10 is actually a little box the size of your hand within the computer or laptop. Your hard drive… Read more →