An external hard drive that cannot be recognized can cause serious problems for business users, whether you are relying on the drive to make backups or transferring files from one machine to another.

You should never store all of your digital eggs in one basket, a lesson that Lifehacker reader Rafik is probably going to learn the hard way. He has a great puzzler for this week’s ...

Connecting an external hard drive to a computer before turning on the system can confuse the device when loading the operating system. When a computer hangs after the BIOS splash screen while being ...

Learn how to back up your computer data safely using cloud backup and external hard drives with this beginner-friendly, ...

Use the following suggestions if connecting an external hard drive is causing a Blue Screen error on your Windows 11/10 computer. Connect the hard drive to another ...

If File History is not working and the Doesn’t recognize this drive error keeps troubling you, this post may help you. File History in Windows 11/10 allows users to ...

I have a refurbished* Lenovo T series Thinkpad which came with Windows 11 preinstalled. I also have a Western Digital MyPassport (?) external HDD (6TB). While the HDD works flawlessly with my desktop ...

I installed a new mother board and cpu and now when i try to boot, it wont detect my harddrives, or my cdrom! I dont know what to do! I checked all cables and power, brand new cables and power supply.

Reader Thomas is having a problem with his six-year-old Windows XP Professional system: When he plugs in a flash drive, Windows doesn’t recognize it. He’s tried different brands; same result. But ...