You may want to format your hard drive if it contains outdated business files or communications. A system recovery disk contains your as-shipped operating system. Used to format the hard disk, it ...

Losing files from an internal/external hard disk is absolute nightmare fuel. One wrong click, a blue screen of death, or your cat stomping across the keyboard, and your files are outta sight. So, you ...

Hard disk errors Quick 303 and Full 305 are diagnostic error codes. They are specific error messages that indicate the hard drive has failed or is dead and needs to ...

A bootable CD-ROM or DVD-ROM that contains the original installation of the OS and applications for a particular computer. When booted, a recovery program (recovery console) returns the computer to ...

External hard drive data recovery is an abrupt solution to restore your data once a malfunction occurs, especially if you experience inaccessibility of important files and folders. There are a number ...

A disappointing tool that seems to have been produced for Windows 7 and has outstayed its welcome. Suitable only for mountable disks, Systweak Advanced Disk Recovery is cheap enough but slows to a ...

[Editor’s note: This article is part of our series of articles on installing and upgrading to Lion.] Apple this week released a free utility called Lion Recovery Disk Assistant that provides an easy ...

Imagine this: you're busy working on your computer and need to access documents saved on your external hard drive. You connect it, get ready to find your data, and...nothing happens. Your hard drive ...

I've noticed that over in the TalkBack section of Zack Whittaker's post on his hard drive going belly up that a few readers have suggested a possible fix involving swapping the logic board of the dead ...