A hard drive that's making loud clicking and screeching noises is trying to tell you something: The hardware is starting to fail and the component needs to be replaced. Failing hard drives typically ...

When a hard disk fails and the computer doesn’t boot, the frenzy to save important company data ensues. When faced with such a problem, don’t panic. Just remember these simple hard drive ...

Writing Zeros Thomas Jensen reports that using Apple's Disk Utility to write zeros to a faulty Travelstar or Deskstar hard drive can help reduce frequency of clicking sounds, and other problems: "I ...

Time Machine and other backup programs have boosted demand for external hard drives. To meet this demand, drive manufacturers began marketing their products in external enclosures, but have not always ...

I have an external LaCie hard drive that suddenly stopped working. More precisely, it does not even seen by Disk Utility and Disk Drill. It spins normally when connected to a Mac but it does not show ...

When you boot your HP computer and it fails to boot and throws the SMART Hard Disk Error 301, 302, 309, 30A, 30B, 30C, 3F1, or 3F2, then the fixes we have presented ...

I tried the drive in another system and it does the same thing. This isn't an int13 style problem as the motherboard I'm trying it on is a Shuttle AK31A with an onboard ATA/100 IDE controller. Has ...

When you mount a drive in the Finder, you expect it to stay there. If you’ve found that your previously reliable external hard disk drive or SSD starts ejecting itself, trouble is obviously afoot.