There’s a trick to thoroughly wiping all your data before you junk your old external solid state drive—or even computer.

Most desktop computers have multiple drive bays, each of which can hold a hard drive. If you have a 3.5-inch hard drive and a 3.5-inch drive bay, it will usually slide right in. However, if your drive ...

Windows users see file management being handled by Windows Explorer or My Computer and might conclude that Windows uses separate programs to organize files. In fact, Windows Explorer and My Computer ...

On my home computer I have Win7 and currently have 2 drives, which are as follows: 500GB "C" drive (7200RPM) with all programs and data (pictures, music, and videos) stored - 69% of space used 750GB ...

I will never fault someone for asking a tech question that feels “basic,” because we all had to get our start somewhere. Few of us popped out of the womb knowing how to access a network share in ...

While SSDs are the preferred storage medium today, hard drives are far from obsolete. They're still the best way to store data that doesn't benefit from SSD speed, and of course people use them for ...

Q. My computer has three 1 TB hard drives, but I have 1.5 TBs of data that won’t fit on a single drive. In this case, should I replace one of my drives with a larger hard drive or just purchase a new ...

Encrypting files, folders, and drives on your computer means that no one else can make sense of the data they contain without a particular decryption key—which in most cases is a password known only ...