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.
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?
Two old hard drives stacked on top of each other.
How to Access Data From an Old Hard Drive
A woman sitting at a desk smiling at her laptop
How to Know If You Have an SSD or HDD Hard Drive
An SSD held in a hand.
How to Format an SSD
Image of a computer taking a backup
How to Back Up a Computer to an External Hard Drive
A photo of a computer processor on top of a motherboard
How to Compare Processors
Image of an external hard drive
How to Fix it When A New Hard Drive Is Not Showing Up in Windows
A child installs a second SSD in a PC.
How to Install a Second SSD
Computer hard disk drive
exFAT vs. NTFS
How to Scan on Chromebook
How to Use an External Drive With a Chromebook
Photo of a blue, WD My Passport Ultra 2TB portable external USB 3.0 hard drive
What Is an External 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)
An SSD with Internal Storage, Less Power, and More reliable icons
What Is a Solid State Drive (SSD)?
CMOS Battery on a Motherboard
What Is CMOS and What Is It For?
A Seagate Solid State Hybrid Drive
Advantages and Disadvantages of SSHDs (Solid State Hybrid Drives)
Illustration of computer hardware parts
Everything You Need to Know About Computer Hardware
Illustration of laptop components including RAM, which is dreaming of a YouTube video
What Is RAM (Random Access Memory)?
Illustration of a hard disc drive
What Is a Hard Disk Drive?
A grey colored wireless external hard drive
What Is a Wireless Hard Drive?
Close up of someone inserting a USB drive into a laptop
How to Choose the Right Flash Drive
Photo of a Sabrent External USB 1.44 MB Floppy Disk Drive
What Is a Floppy Disk Drive?
Frustrated person looking at a computer that's making "click click" noises
What to Do When Your Hard Drive Is Making Noise
Four illustrations depicting the process of replacing a hard drive.
How Do I Replace a Hard Drive?
Close up image of person using a laptop mouse pad with a green light in the background
What Is a Hard Drive Activity Light?
Photo of a hand erasing equations on a blackboard
Data Sanitization Methods
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
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
Internal hard drive. Interior of contemporary, multi-platter, multigigabyte hard disk drive
What Is a Sector?
Screenshot of HDDErase v4.0
HDDErase v4.0 Review
Screenshot of the chkdsk /r command and results in Windows XP Recovery Console
How to Locate and Recover Data From Bad Sectors
Screenshot of the DBAN hard drive wiping program
How to Completely Erase a Hard Drive
Screenshot of Samsung HUTIL
Samsung HUTIL v2.10 Review
Image of the inside of a hard disk drive
How to Wipe a Hard Drive

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