There are a lot of reasons for replacing your hard drive or adding a new one to your old computer, but they all boil down to the need for more space. Perhaps you want to keep all your videos, pictures ...

Cleaning out your closets is always a good thing -- especially if your closet is a crowded PC hard drive. Last week, we talked about ways to get rid of the accumulated digital garbage and improve your ...

You can clone a hard drive to make a duplicate that you can use to replace a failed drive or get a new computer up and ...

To format a hard drive before you start using it in Windows, use the Disk Management utility; on a Mac, use Disk Utility.

A bare drive dock like this one from Cirago is used to quickly move files to and from your computer via USB.(Jim Rossman / TNS) This week I got an email from a reader who asks, “I have a stand-alone ...

Any newly purchased PC lets you zip through different tasks quickly and do other work at a good pace. However, there’s nothing more daunting than moving all your important files and documents from ...

Is your computer gasping for breath, drowning in a sea of photos, documents and random downloads? We've all been there: that moment when your computer feels like it's about to burst at the seams, ...

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 ...