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How do you get the data off your phone if you have accidentally dropped it and smashed the screen? Find out what's possible and what isn't.

Mobile devices sometimes get lost. A laptop bag gets left on the bus or train, a smartphone slips out of your pocket, or a USB flash drive falls to the ground unnoticed. Losing a notebook or phone ...

There's one immutable law of PCs: sh*t happens. And when it does, there's usually a way to fix things, if you had the foresight to create one essential recovery tool first. Booting from a USB recovery ...

What’s the most effective way to replace a hard drive without losing data? Undoubtedly through a 1-to-1 copy, and disk cloning software can help do that without any hassle. Whether it’s to clone a ...

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Now that so many of us are signed up to cloud storage services, USB drives aren't as ubiquitous as they once were, but they still have their uses. One of those uses is running an entire computer ...

You can destroy a hard drive by wiping its contents and disassembling its parts for ultimate security.

It's easy to access your iPhone backups on a Mac computer through Spotlight, iTunes, or iCloud. Here's what you need to know to do it.