A few days ago, I was preparing my laptop for some upcoming travels. I normally only use that particular machine when I am on the road, so it had been a few weeks since it had been used. Even so, it ...

Reader Gene Dybinski would like to lend his mother a hand. He writes: Last March I bought a new Power Mac G5, and almost immediately saw an article (on either this site or in the magazine) on how to ...

Is your MacBook unable to detect an external hard drive? Here are the ways to fix the issue and make your external hard drive accessible again on Mac. Photo by Abdul A on Unsplash Photo by Abdul A on ...

Title, I believe, says it all... PowerDVD opens when clicking either of my HD icons (via My Computer) and I can't explore my hard drives. R/click > explore, aye, but I'd really rather have the ability ...

Removing a hard disk drive from a personal computer is quite easy. Pull down the system and remove the drive. However, it’s a bit more complex when performing a hot swap. For those unaware, hot ...

In today’s era of large SSDs, multi-terabyte hard drives, and online storage, many of us don’t keep as close an eye on our disk usage as we used to. Still, even the largest drives fill up eventually.

Almost all computers today store their digital data as magnetic areas on a device called a hard disk, hard drive or fixed disk. Basically, all hard drives work the same way: Information is encoded and ...

New beta, new excitement: Apple has radically changed another classic Mac icon that has been an integral part of the operating system for 25 years. The fifth pre-release version of macOS 26 Tahoe, ...