Discover the hidden dangers lurking in your hard drive and how to protect your precious data before it's too late.

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 ...

Learn how to back up your computer data safely using cloud backup and external hard drives with this beginner-friendly, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. “Obviously” is a dangerous word, even in scenarios that seem simple. Suppose, for instance, you need to do an important computation. You ...

I'm going to be building a new computer - and would like to move my current hard drive (w/Win98 installed on it) from the current computer (Dell OptiPlex, P-II, 450MHz) to the new one (Athlon XP1500+, ...