Modern storage devices, like universal serial bus flash drives and solid state drives, lack moving parts and therefore aren't vulnerable to mechanical failure. Traditional hard disk drives, which ...

The First Aid feature in Apple’s Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities) represents one of the oldest and most helpful repair utilities available for your Mac. But ...

Whether you need to better organize your hard drive or resolve disk errors, Disk Utility is the tool for the job. Built into macOS, Disk Utility is tucked away in the Utilities folder, which is found ...

Windows has an inbuilt mechanism that checks the hard drive and reports errors if anything isn’t working as expected. In case a problem is detected, the user gets ...

This post features solutions for repairing damaged RAW drive without formatting or losing data. A RAW drive is a storage device that has a RAW file system and hasn’t been formatted or assigned to a ...

Hack #57 from PC Hacks by Jim Aspinwall (O’Reilly Media). Roughly 60% of all disk drive failures are mechanical in nature–from spindle-bearing wear to read/write heads banging into delicate disk ...

The Windows XP installation CD-ROM includes recovery options on it. When booting from the CD-ROM you can access the recovery console to repair corrupted boot files and scan the hard drive for any ...

How do I go about making a "repair" disk in WinXP?<P>Actually I've gotten the "NTLDR" is missing error a twice last week so I decide to do some reading and trying to ...