Physical damage as well as routine wear and tear can undermine the integrity of your hard disk drive, making areas of the disk unreadable and causing errors. You could lose valuable business data as a ...

If your external hard drive keeps blinking, but Windows doesn’t detect or recognize it, this post will help you. Most hard drives have an activity light on them. The light flashes when there is a data ...

Windows has an inbuilt mechanism that checks the hard drive and reports errors if anything isn’t working as expected. In case a problem is detected, the user gets ...

Of all the PC components, few require more care and attention than a hard drive. We’ve all heard the admonishments to defragment drives, and clean up junk files to keep all our 1s and 0s sparkling. No ...

The most precious part of your computer is the hard drive. It contains all your data, if anything happens to it, it is all gone, and you could lose all your life’s work. So, it is important that you ...

Modern storage devices, like universal serial bus flash drives and solid state drives, lack moving parts and therefore aren't vulnerable to mechanical failure. Traditional hard disk drives, which ...

If you buy a hard disk from eBay or a reseller, there’s always the chance of getting a used hard disk. Or perhaps you’ve found yourself a great deal on a used hard disk but need to know how old it is.

Any day now, the folks who bought new PCs that qualified for free Windows Vista upgrades through Microsoft's Express Upgrade program will begin receiving their disks. Others are buying shrink-wrapped ...

If you don’t routinely back up your data and have lost essential files from an external hard drive, external hard drive recovery can be challenging. External hard disk data recovery can be more ...

Have you found that you are running low on hard disk space? In this article we will show you how to increase the cache of your hard disk and improve the performance of your PC. A cache is a temporary ...