If you bought a computer between 2003 and 2008, you probably have some money coming to you. It's part of a class action settlement against six makers of computer disc drives. The lawsuit claimed the ...

Deleting a file on a computer rarely means it is gone. On traditional hard drives and many solid-state drives, what ...

Planning to auction off that old computer on eBay? You might want to take a closer look at what’s on your disk drive first. According to a new study by two MIT graduate students, companies and ...

If you have ever owned a computer, especially over previous decades, you know that the type of storage used has changed many times. Thankfully, we’re long removed from the days of hard drives taking ...

These messages will state that there is something wrong with your computer's hard drive and then suggests that you download and install a program that can fix the problem. When you click on of these ...

Defragmenting your hard drive can be good or bad for the device depending on what kind of hard drive you're using. Generally, you want to regularly defragment a mechanical Hard Disk Drive and avoid ...

CNET editor Dong Ngo shows how you can replace your computer's hard drive with a solid-state drive and be significantly happier with your life. Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with ...

Your PC has a hidden feature that can delete temporary files, manage your cloud storage and get some extra drive space. If you're using an older Windows computer, you've probably found yourself ...

DriveImage XML is my program of choice for backing up and protecting my data. When I first began using this application, though, I had some difficulties restoring my backup image on my test boxes ...

The world’s six largest computer drive makers Tuesday published the final specifications (download PDF) for a single, full-disk encryption standard that can be used across all hard disk drives, solid ...

I recently recommended that a customer use an external hard drive as a backup device when they remarked, “You know, I don’t think I really know what a hard drive is. What is a computer ‘drive,’ anyway ...

When you are doing work for your business using an iMac, you can load a disk to access files and applications. All iMacs come with an optical drive, which Apple calls a SuperDrive. Unlike drives that ...