If you've recently lost favorite photos and videos or important documents stored on a drive, you might be able to get them back with free data recovery software. It's all too easy to accidentally ...

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 ...

USB flash drives are portable data storage options that allow users to store and move files between computers and other devices. Unintentional deletions, virus assaults, formatting errors, or system ...

Your hard drive may not always perform well, and sudden disk errors or accidental deletion can cause you to lose data. But there’s no need to feel frustrated after losing essential data on a hard ...

My IBM 60GXP just developed amnesia! According to the IBM DFT software it appears to have developed a bad sector. Fortunately the drive is only used for data, it's not my boot drive.<P> The DFT ...

Drive encryption on Windows is still technically a "business" feature, but if you have Windows 11 Pro, you can fully encrypt your drive using BitLocker. Your TPM is supposed to handle the decryption ...

There's one immutable law of PCs: sh*t happens. And when it does, there's usually a way to fix things, if you had the foresight to create one essential recovery tool first. Booting from a USB recovery ...

BitLocker locked me out of my PC after a system update, but the recovery key saved me. I found it on my Microsoft account under the device’s details and used it to unlock each encrypted drive. It’s a ...

Is Windows 11 on Arm ready for primetime? After using three PCs with Snapdragon X processors for the past year, I discovered three issues that might make you think twice.