Losing files from an internal/external hard disk is absolute nightmare fuel. One wrong click, a blue screen of death, or your cat stomping across the keyboard, and your files are outta sight. So, you ...

Just because you delete a file on your computer doesn’t mean it’s gone, and that’s true for both older mechanical hard drives as well as solid-state drives and flash drives. Yet on the flip side, just ...

An unformatted drive in File Explorer means Windows can’t recognize the file system and makes the drive inaccessible. You can use these methods to recover data from an unformatted drive in Windows ...

Jeff Hudgins removed the hard drive from a dying computer, and via USB plugged it into a new PC. But he can’t access his files. They’re encrypted. I don’t like Windows’ Encrypted File System (EFS), ...

I received an email from a reader asking about recovering files from a damaged hard drive. It seems he had a laptop that was physically damaged. He asked his computer guy to try to transfer the files ...

Three of the more frequent questions we hear are, “Why can’t you recover my lost file(s)?” “How do I securely delete data from my hard drive?” and “Why does it take so long to open and save files?” ...

We will show you the following two ways to recover your data from an unbootable hard drive in Windows 11/10. Using the Command Prompt Using UI in Windows Recovery Environment Since your laptop has ...

apologies if this has been covered elsewhere; I did a couple of brief searches and saw no directly relevant threads. Recently had major PC trouble on a machine with a small OS drive and large data ...

Reader William Eschenfeldt shouldn’t-a, hadn’t-a, oughn’t-a done something with Disk Utility that he now regrets. He writes: I recently bought a new iMac. While copying files from multiple external ...

I received an email from a reader asking about recovering files from a damaged hard drive. It seems he had a laptop that was physically damaged. He asked his computer guy to try to transfer the files ...