The price of storage has dropped dramatically over the last decade. Everyday consumers now have access to big USB drives with terabytes of storage in a small form factor. But just because you can load ...

Almost every computer user has experienced reformatting a USB drive. However, there are times when you suddenly realize that there are essential files in there. An unfortunate event like this can ...

You need a document, photo or other file that you're sure was deleted. You've searched your hard drive. You've scoured the Recycle Bin. No sign of it? Don't panic. As long as you act quickly, you can ...

Xolelwa Mzili’s PC no longer sees her external hard drive. Can she recover the files? Because they’re used heavily for backup and sneakernet, we tend to assume that every file on an external hard ...

The discontinuation of CrashPlan for Home on 22 October 2018 is coming soon (see “CrashPlan Discontinues Consumer Backups,” 22 August 2017), so I’ve been receiving questions about how best to restore ...

There’s no person who likes games and hasn’t heard about PS4. This gaming console by Sony is one of the most famous and successful ones on the market. And at least once, most gamers encounter a ...

Nannette Abia Rivera’s external hard drive stopped working, and she needs to recover files stored on it. When you store files on an external drive, it’s easy to forget my first rule of tech storage: ...