When you buy a new hard drive, your first impulse may be to connect it to your Mac and start copying files to the new drive. But with all that new storage space it might make sense to partition the ...

In order to perform this procedure, you will need an external FireWire hard drive, as well as copies of Mac OS X for both Intel-based and PowerPC-based Macs. You will also need access to both an Intel ...

When it comes to learning how to choose an external hard drive, you need to consider what you want to do with the drive, how fast you need to be able to access the data on it, and how much you have to ...

A disc that never leaves the case can never be scratched. Save your Wii games to an external hard drive with this handy tutorial for speedier and scratch-free playback. [Update: Mike's tutorial is no ...

Errant internal and external devices are among the most notorious causes of wide-ranging problems for Mac OS X. These include, but are not limited to: Startup stalls or hangs Kernel panics (repeated ...

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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: ...

External USB/Thunderbolt SSDs and/or hard drives (aka direct-attached storage, or DAS) are a super-convenient way to add storage capacity to your system as well as back it up. External drives are also ...