Q. I have a computer with a 10 gig IDE hard drive in it. I just picked up an 80 gig IDE hard drive. I want to install it as a second drive. I’ve heard that I could run into some trouble, possibly with ...

I have an old laptop with a dead hard drive that I'd like to install xubuntu on. My problem is that it won't boot from USB and there's no optical drive. <BR><BR>What I would like to do is get the ...

If you've upgraded your laptop, don't discard that "naked" drive. You can put it back to work as external storage. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and ...

I'm having a problem installing a new hard drive under Windows XP. BIOS recognizes the drive ok, as does Seagate's "DriveWizard" program that should format the drive for me. When I start windows ...

The error message Please back up your data and replace your hard disk drive indicates a failing hard drive. Therefore, you need to replace it. However, in some cases ...

Before you throw out or destroy an old hard drive, check out a few ways that you can put it to use without making our ...

It can be frustrating when your hard disk or partition is not detected when installing Windows 11/10 and you get to see an error message that says— We couldn’t ...

Reader Fred wants to know if a laptop hard drive can be plugged into a desktop PC. “The pin out appears to be the same,” he notes, “but there is no separate power-supply connector.” Short answer: yes.

The PS5's storage space can be expanded with an external USB device--as long as you have the right hard drive. Brendan is a freelance writer and content creator from Portland, OR. He covers tech and ...