External hard drives back up your most important files, but what happens when they malfunction? Here's what to do if your ...

Several users have reported that external FireWire and/or USB hard drives will not mount after updating to Mac OS X 10.4.7. MacFixIt reader Joseph Samuels writes: "I did have some trouble with one of ...

If your external hard drive keeps blinking, but Windows doesn’t detect or recognize it, this post will help you. Most hard drives have an activity light on them. The light flashes when there is a data ...

I have this XP SP2 Pro machine which always exhibit this behavior. Whenever I connect any external USB drive or flash drives, the computer freezes for a few minutes and after a while it says that the ...

Using an external USB drive in a Hyper-V virtual machine can be challenging since Hyper-V lacks native USB passthrough support. This issue often arises when transferring data, performing backups, or ...

It's never a good feeling when you fire up your computer after installing a new drive and the system can't see the new hardware. Windows 7 may not recognize a new solid state drive because of an ...