Hard drives and solid state drives are used in technology to help store and retrieve data. Discover what you need and how to use or troubleshoot yours.
Man plugging a USB drive into a laptop
How to Fix a USB Drive Not Showing Up
A Seagate Solid State Hybrid Drive
Is an SSHD Worth It? Pros and Cons of Solid State Hybrid Drives
Screenshot of Samsung HUTIL
Samsung HUTIL v2.10 Review
Close up of someone inserting a USB drive into a laptop
How to Choose the Right Flash Drive
Photo of a hand erasing equations on a blackboard
Data Sanitization Methods
Illustration of a hard disc drive
What Is a Hard Disk Drive?
Screenshot of HDDErase v4.0
HDDErase v4.0 Review
Screenshot of the DBAN hard drive wiping program
How to Completely Erase a Hard Drive
CMOS Battery on a Motherboard
What Is CMOS and What Is It For?
Close up image of person using a laptop mouse pad with a green light in the background
What Is a Hard Drive Activity Light?
Four illustrations depicting the process of replacing a hard drive.
How Do I Replace a Hard Drive?
Screenshot of the chkdsk /r command and results in Windows XP Recovery Console
How to Locate and Recover Data From Bad Sectors
Photo of a Sabrent External USB 1.44 MB Floppy Disk Drive
What Is a Floppy Disk Drive?
Internal hard drive. Interior of contemporary, multi-platter, multigigabyte hard disk drive
What Is a Sector?
Photo of a blue, WD My Passport Ultra 2TB portable external USB 3.0 hard drive
What Is an External Hard Drive?
format write zero command in a command prompt from a System Recovery Disc
How to Use the Format Command to Write Zeros to a Hard Drive
An illustration of what a CPU is, including where it's located, what it looks like, and examples.
What Is a CPU? (Central Processing Unit)
A child installs a second SSD in a PC.
How to Install a Second SSD
Image of a computer taking a backup
How to Back Up a Computer to an External Hard Drive
A woman sitting in her home office looking at her computer screen near a window.
Can I Use Two Hard Drives in One Computer?
Destroying a hard drive with a hammer.
How to Wipe a Hard Drive on a Dead Computer
SATA hard drives and SSDs plugged into a motherboard.
What Is the C Drive on a Computer?
Flash drive storage and free space
How to Check Storage Space on a Flash Drive
Flash drive on a surface in front of a keyboard
External Hard Drive vs. Flash Drive: What’s the Difference?
Home office: High angle view or directly above view of laptop with external hard disk drive and flower vase on white table
How to Make an Internal Hard Drive External
Image of the inside of a hard disk drive
How to Wipe a Hard Drive
Two old hard drives stacked on top of each other.
How to Access Data From an Old Hard Drive
A photo of a computer processor on top of a motherboard
How to Compare Processors
An SSD with Internal Storage, Less Power, and More reliable icons
What Is a Solid State Drive (SSD)?
Image of an external hard drive
How to Fix it When A New Hard Drive Is Not Showing Up in Windows
An SSD held in a hand.
How to Format an SSD
Illustration of laptop components including RAM, which is dreaming of a YouTube video
What Is RAM (Random Access Memory)?
A grey colored wireless external hard drive
What Is a Wireless Hard Drive?
How to Scan on Chromebook
How to Use an External Drive With a Chromebook
Frustrated person looking at a computer that's making "click click" noises
What to Do When Your Hard Drive Is Making Noise
Computer hard disk drive
exFAT vs. NTFS

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