In the last few years, the available range of operating systems for PCs has increased dramatically. Various free (!) operating systems have been added to the list, such as BeOS, OpenBSD and Linux.

If you have ever experienced data loss on your computer, please put your hand up in the air now. Keep your hand raised, if the data you lost were so critical, that it almost made you pull the hair out ...

When a hard disk fails and the computer doesn’t boot, the frenzy to save important company data ensues. When faced with such a problem, don’t panic. Just remember these simple hard drive ...

Whilst using Win2K a box popped up to say that HD C: had failed (no power) along with my CD ROM (both on same IDE cable), both devices were removed from Windows Explorer. Win2K is installed on my 2nd ...

In general we do quite like this device, it looks good, works well and has a few good features up its sleeve. It is certainly quite hard to create an all-in-one dock that can cater with the both drive ...

I am aware of adapters that allow for connecting a laptop hard disk to a normal, 40-pin desktop motherboard. I wish to do the opposite: connect a 40-pin, 3.5" drive to a 44-pin connector inside a ...

As a 4 channel ATA133 RAID adapter, the RocketRAID 404 supports up to 8 IDE hard disk drives, and provides multi level RAID support including RAID 0, 1, 0/1, and JBOD. The RocketRAID 404 is a high ...

The “cheap” and “easy” way in about an hour! A question that pop’s up from time to time is “I somehow ended up with an archaic old laptop / computer, can it run Linux?” Well of course it can, but that ...

One of the most difficult areas to troubleshoot is the hard drive. So, wouldn't you kill to have a set of troubleshooting steps to guide you? Read on as Faithe Wempen reveals her seven methods for ...