We all need to start from scratch sometimes and if you're building a new PC, chances are you'll need to learn how to make a bootable USB drive. This will enable you to boot your PC directly from a USB ...

The Raspberry Pi 5 is the first in the Raspberry Pi series to support PCI Express (PCIe), and if you use a board that converts PCIe to M.2, you can recognize an M.2 SSD or set the M.2 SSD as the boot ...

You can still make an external macOS bootable drive, but Apple's tighter security procedures mean you have to prepare for it before your internal drive fails. Here's how to do it all, and what's been ...

My old pc had a SSD which I would like to be the boot drive in a new machine. However, the new machine cannot boot with it. Here is what the new machine has. So I assume drive 2 is the new SSD? Drive ...

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

There are many ways to make a slow laptop faster, but few are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD). Making the swap will, in most cases, ...

Back in the old days of 2010, I used to walk into my home office in the morning, hit the power button on my production system, and then head back upstairs to have breakfast. By the time I returned to ...