Do not shake or drop the hard drives. Even an accidental drop can cause internal mechanical damage to the drive platters.

This Prime Day, Amazon is offering a massive discount on the WD 20TB Elements external hard drive that brings down the price ...

Performing regular maintenance is crucial for ensuring a PC delivers a smooth experience. Here’s a guide on how to clean up your hard drive.

Clean an Overcrowded Hard Drive. Answer Line By Lincoln Spector, Jan 9, 2012 7:47 am PST. Arther needs to make room on his hard disk drive. He asked the Desktops forum for advice.

If your hard drive is encrypted (with something like BitLocker), you may have to follow a different recovery procedure, Arthur Shi, technical writing team lead at iFixit, tells Popular Mechanics.

Be aware, too, that you should always create a Windows system restore point before using Advanced Registry Optimizer 2010–or any Registry cleaner–in case it makes changes that cause your PC problems..

The simplest way to do that is with a factory reset, which wipes your data from the hard drive and returns the computer to its original settings. With a Chromebook, a Mac, or a Windows PC, it ...

Howells, a computer science analyst, accidentally discarded the hard drive with a pile of trash. He was cleaning out his office in 2013 when he left it with other items destined for the dump.

One fun aspect of 1970s-era hard disk drives is that they are big, clunky and are fairly easy to repair without the need for a clean room. A less fun aspect is that they are 1970s-era HDDs and thus… ...

Wiping your device is considered the "full nuclear" option when it comes to tackling malware. You wipe all data on your infected drive with the theory being that malware can't survive the process.