The D: drive is usually a secondary hard drive installed on a computer, often used to hold the restore partition or to provide additional disk storage space. You may decide to clean off the contents ...

Most desktop computers have multiple drive bays, each of which can hold a hard drive. If you have a 3.5-inch hard drive and a 3.5-inch drive bay, it will usually slide right in. However, if your drive ...

Students at Eastside Preparatory School in Kirkland, Wash., are getting class materials in a new way this year: on a tiny flash-memory drive that plugs into a computer's USB port. Small enough to wear ...

You can partition a hard drive on a computer to create multiple drive letters with a single drive. You can use the Disk Management utility in Windows to partition a drive by shrinking an existing ...

CNET editor Dong Ngo shows how you can replace your computer's hard drive with a solid-state drive and be significantly happier with your life. Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with ...

Solid state drives (SSDs) are faster and safer than regular hard disk drives (HDDs). On the other hand, hard disk drives tend to be less expensive than newer solid state drives. The best computer ...

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Thumb drives used to be so cool. They came in every shape and material, from little plastic rectangles to rubber wristbands, novelty animals, and pens sporting a built-in USB-drive. We used to marvel ...

So I've always thought that having magnets near hard-drives was bad for the hard-drives, yet these days all I see are magnet-tipped screw drivers. Even those "iFixit" branded ones, which are obviously ...

Reader Gilbert wrote in with a great question no one has ever asked me before. He’s looking for help identifying the D: drive on his computer: Why is it there, what is it used for, and can he store ...

Mac desktop and MacBook owners are used to living without a CD or DVD drive, but there are occasions where access to one could be handy. AppleInsider explains how to remotely access the CD or DVD ...