We need to handle hard drives carefully. Even the slightest fall can damage them internally and stop working. If you see your hard drive spinning but can’t see it on your Windows 11/10 PC, use the ...

Does your External Hard Drive keep disconnecting randomly on your Windows PC? Some users have reported that when they connect their external hard drives to their PCs, it disconnects randomly. Now, ...

QUESTION: What should I be doing to monitor my hard drive? ANSWER: Of all the components that make up your computer, the hard drive should be considered the most important to maintain and monitor ...

At the heart of every PC is a storage drive, which stores the Microsoft Windows operating system and also contains space for your personal data, documents, photos, and applications. Regardless of ...

The alphabet begins with the letter A, but the first drive on a reasonably up-to-date Windows computer is labeled “C:”. Why is that? First of all, the naming of the first Windows drive is not because ...

A RAM disc can be used to integrate part of the main memory as a very fast drive in Windows. The article shows the background ...

Storage has come a long way in recent years, from hard disk drives to solid-state drives, and now that we're multiple generations deep into the SSD reign, it has to be said: the HDD is not dead.

For instance, Windows has the Storage Sense feature that automatically deletes temporary files and other unimportant data.

One developer who successfully activated the feature in Windows 11 (version 25H2) is X user PurePlayerPC, who claims it works "pretty good" on his computer. He ...

So I've always thought that having magnets near hard-drives was bad for the hard-drives, yet these days all I see are magnet-tipped screw drivers. Even those "iFixit" branded ones, which are obviously ...

I am heading overseas for a year soon, and am sending my PC with my big shipment of stuff. Is is best practice to remove the hard drives prior to shipping? Can those be sent separately by something ...