Sometimes viruses and malware can cripple a laptop completely. When this happens, you might not be able to access the Internet to download current virus definitions or patterns needed to remove the ...

From time to time when troubleshooting a laptop (and particularly when your warranty is up), you may need to open your laptop to remove and reinstall components. Removing a laptop's hard drive won't ...

If you've upgraded your laptop, don't discard that "naked" drive. You can put it back to work as external storage. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and ...

Reader Fred wants to know if a laptop hard drive can be plugged into a desktop PC. “The pin out appears to be the same,” he notes, “but there is no separate power-supply connector.” Short answer: yes.

As far as I know, all laptop HDs are standard 2.5" units. I mean, there could be some company (Compaq, given their track record -- View image here: http://arstechnica ...

About two months ago, I spilled a soda on my laptop, and apparently fried the motherboard. Now that I have access to another laptop (my dad's), I need to retrieve the information from the other ...

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 ...