It's faster to restore a known-good disc image of your PC than to reinstall Windows, so plan ahead by using a free disk-backup utility. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an ...

Not sure what’s hidden on your hard drive? Let Disk Investigator find out. Disk Investigator doesn’t simply help you find lost files. It also helps you uncover plenty of information about the contents ...

OS X’s Disk Utility—which enables you to format, partition, repair, and perform other kinds of maintenance on disks (including SSDs, flash drives, and disk images)—is good for what it does. Yet for ...

Defragmenting your hard drive regularly is an important part of regular hard drive maintenance, and the best tools can defrag your drive regularly or on demand when your games start to slow down or ...

Q: Is there a safe way to remove programs that came with my computer without deleting something important? I am trying to delete items I never use because I need more free disk space. May I simply ...

In the world of hard drive information utilities, https://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,198433/description.html (free) is a gem. A venerable one at that–it’s ...

No matter how sophisticated your RAID hardware is or how fast your disk devices are, servers that actively write and delete files slow to a crawl without routine disk defragmentation. Windows 2000 ...

Windows still has many legacy utilities you can use on your PC to complete tasks. Some are being removed or deprecated, like ...

A good way to separate your data is to partition your Mac hard drive. A partition splits your storage into two spaces, like putting a trunk divider in your car. The most common use case is to install ...