What to Do When Your External Storage Drive Won't Show Up External hard drives back up your most important files, but what happens when they malfunction? Here's what to do if your device is not ...

A bare drive dock like this one from Cirago is used to quickly move files to and from your computer via USB. Jim Rossman / TNS This week I got an email from a reader who asks, “I have a stand-alone ...

If your external hard drive keeps blinking, but Windows doesn’t detect or recognize it, this post will help you. Most hard drives have an activity light on them. The light flashes when there is a data ...

Use the following suggestions if you encounter the No display problem when an external hard drive is plugged in. Before proceeding, try another USB port and see what happens. Also, try to restart the ...

QUESTION: What should I be doing to monitor my hard drive? ANSWER: Of all the components that make up your computer, the hard drive should be considered the most important to maintain and monitor ...