Sometimes viruses and malware can cripple a laptop completely. When this happens, you might not be able to access the Internet to download current virus definitions or patterns needed to remove the ...

Solid-state drives are all the rage. Since SSDs have no moving parts, they’re more rugged and shock-resistant than standard hard drives–which makes them perfect for laptops that get bumped around a ...

From time to time when troubleshooting a laptop (and particularly when your warranty is up), you may need to open your laptop to remove and reinstall components. Removing a laptop's hard drive won't ...

Jim Rossman is a tech columnist for Tribune News Service. He may be reached at jrossmantechadviser@gmail.com.

One of the best and easiest ways to upgrade your laptop is by taking out the hard drive and replacing it with a solid-state drive or SSD. This will allow your laptop to have a longer battery life, ...

Upgrade your small, pokey drive with this speedy half-terabyte bargain. It works in laptops as well as in Netbooks. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and ...

About two months ago, I spilled a soda on my laptop, and apparently fried the motherboard. Now that I have access to another laptop (my dad's), I need to retrieve the information from the other ...

I have a Vaio Laptop that won't turn on, so I have purchased a HX-IDE-K so that I can hook up my hard drive to my HP Desktop, both are running Windows XP. I want to back up my data. Well I took out ...

How do I format a hard drive? A computer hard drive stores your files, allowing you to access them at any time. The majority of the time, you want these files to remain stored properly and safely.