Inside the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, sits an odd-looking, refrigerator-sized contraption that could have been created by an out-of-control set designer for “Lost in Space.” ...

I recently recommended that a customer use an external hard drive as a backup device when they remarked, “You know, I don’t think I really know what a hard drive is. What is a computer ‘drive,’ anyway ...

The IBM RAMAC 305, introduced on this day in 1956, was the world’s first computer to use a magnetic hard disk drive for data ...

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 ...

You can partition a hard drive on a computer to create multiple drive letters with a single drive. You can use the Disk Management utility in Windows to partition a drive by shrinking an existing ...

You may need to format a hard drive to match your computer's operating system before you can use it. To format a hard drive in Windows, you'll use the Disk Management utility; on a Mac, you'll use ...