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 ...

Solid-state drives are all the rage. Since SSDs have no moving parts, they’re more rugged and shock-resistant than standard hard drives–which makes them perfect for laptops that get bumped around a ...

Lately I’ve been helping my wife deal with a laptop hard drive that’s too small. Whenever we go out, I’m the one who takes the pictures with my phone, but she always asks me to AirDrop the photos to ...

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 ...

One of the best and easiest ways to upgrade your laptop is by taking out the hard drive and replacing it with a solid-state drive or SSD. This will allow your laptop to have a longer battery life, ...

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 ...

Whether you’re working on a laptop or a tablet, a lack of internal storage can literally clog up your day. You can run a disk cleanup to clear up some clutter, but if you’re simply out of precious ...

I have a Vaio Laptop that won't turn on, so I have purchased a HX-IDE-K so that I can hook up my hard drive to my HP Desktop, both are running Windows XP. I want to back up my data. Well I took out ...

How do I format a hard drive? A computer hard drive stores your files, allowing you to access them at any time. The majority of the time, you want these files to remain stored properly and safely.