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.

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 ...

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 ...

If your Windows 11/10 computer is connected to a second hard drive and you find that it will not boot under these circumstances, then this post will help you.

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 ...

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 ...

My drive is connected directly USB-C SSD (Samsung T3) to USBC on the MacBook (2017 15"). Have you found any new workarounds or a way to reenable the old option key boot?

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 ...