Drives fail. And no matter how many backups you have, losing a drive when you’re in the middle of working on something important—my namesake’s law—can be a real pain in the ass. Thankfully, replacing ...

Q: My Seagate 250-gigabyte external hard drive, which is less than 20 percent full, cannot be accessed — or at least the contents, mostly jpg files and Word docs, cannot. It had started to get quite ...

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 ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link While iPads and iPhones are obviously great devices, the Mac is still one of the best bits of consumer technology in the modern era. Apple's ...

Windows 8, like its predecessors, makes USB drives accessible via Windows Explorer, or as its now known, File Explorer. The contents of a removable device, however, are typically only available in ...

A USB extension cable enables convenient access to USB thumb drives even when your computer's USB port is tightly cluttered with other devices or reside in an inconvenient location. The USB cable ...

Cloud storage is an excellent option to keep your pictures, videos, documents, and files safe. It's also an excellent way to free up storage on your phone, especially if you have a budget Android ...

You never think losing your files will happen to you until it actually does, and you're caught without a backup. Backups are extremely easy to keep, so there's no reason not to have one. Here's how to ...

Mac desktop and MacBook owners are used to living without a CD or DVD drive, but there are occasions where access to one could be handy. AppleInsider explains how to remotely access the CD or DVD ...

If you’re having trouble getting your Windows PC to connect to a NAS, you’re not the only one. A recent update in Windows 11 Pro 24H2 introduced introduced security settings that block certain types ...